Underwhelming Quotes

#1. My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.

Lionel Barber

#2. I find him whelming, personally. Neither overwhelming nor underwhelming but somewhere in the middle.

Lawrence Block

#3. There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.

Brock Clarke

#4. It was beautiful how effortlessly lives intersected, but so underwhelming when no one seemed to notice

Sarah Dayan

#5. With a great show of courage, he stepped forward and kissed me. It was nice, though once again a little underwhelming.

Richelle Mead

#6. Got any brothers or sisters?"
"No."
"Not a real chatty gal, are ya?"
"Exactly how am I supposed to expand on not having siblings? Should I cry?"
He smiled as he held up a bottle, "Wine?

Shelly Laurenston

#7. He's earned all his money himself, with his fists. He didn't steal it like the rest of our politicians. And he'll be less tempted to steal if he gets in the chair.

Vitali Klitschko

#8. I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

Kevin Mitnick

#9. One would expect writers and artists to understand one another better than anyone else and to be more appreciative of one another's works. That, sadly, is not always the case. Writers rarely say anything positive about each other.

Elif Shafak

#10. A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.

Macklemore