Quotes About Bottom-feeder

Behind Hagedorn's back, Kawakita had nicknamed the administrator "Stumpy." Only Margo and a few of Frock's other graduate students had known the name referred not to Hagedorn's diminutive size, but to Stumpiniceps troglodytes, a particularly mundane kind of bottom-feeder that populated the oceans of the Carboniferous period.

the meaning of Adam's work sat on its surface, that he had no opinion of his subjects, good or bad: "Cullen's abjectness is not luxury at ease; his emptiness is not profundity; when he scribbles, his poor syntax is not a form of epigram. His crudeness is what it is – unabashed … He's a bottom-feeder, none too pernickety about taste. Every pond needs one, especially the cesspools of popular culture.