Unexceptional Quotes

#1. The value of your life is in all the unexceptional details.

Carol Mason

#2. He showed the words "chocolate cake" to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. "Guilt" was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: "celebration.

Michael Pollan

#3. One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

Jean De La Bruyere

#4. I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems.

Rush Limbaugh

#5. She ducked from her doorway and pressed on, neither too fast nor too slow, soft bootheels silent on the dewy cobbles, her unexceptional hood drawn down to an inconspicuous degree, the very image of a person with just the average amount to hide.

George R R Martin

#6. Do you ever feel like 'nothing' has happened to you? Like you know you have a destiny, but all you've seen of life so far is unexceptional? I want my life to be different. I want to feel that it's begun. I'm waiting for 'that' kiss.

Lauren Kate

#7. Suddenly realised that if he felt that he had achieved nothing it was because he had failed to cherish what he had in fact done. He had filled his days doing ordinary, unexceptional things and thought nothing of them. But they were far from nothing:

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. A few weeks ago my uncle came over to borrow my dad's socket set and when he asked my dad how he was my dad said oh unexceptional. Living quietly with my disappointments. And how are you

Miriam Toews

#9. The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

Paul Greengrass

#10. In spite of all my efforts to create a neat, tidy, obedient, moderate, unexceptional persona, I was simply
too weird for them; until that is, my first female tutor was hired.

Salman Rushdie

#11. This book is dedicated to the uncool, uncoordinated, unexceptional, uncharming, uninteresting, and especially the unashamed. To everyone from the Awkwards to the Zeroes, living as the proud oddballs they are. This book is dedicated to my people.

Drew Hayes

#12. When a thing is taken away, you see more clearly what it brought to your life ...

Rachel Joyce

#13. He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!

Robin Hobb

#14. I'm fine I said for the 2,467th time this semester. (I know. I was keeping count)

Ally Carter

#15. Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.

Paddy Ashdown

#16. I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.

Nelson Algren

#17. Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.

John Donne

#18. In any government bureaucracy, they are not working for you but for the mythical blob called the 'public sector,' which is really nothing but a stash of stolen cash divided among the robber class.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#19. Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

Jesse Jackson

#20. I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.

Joe Mansueto

#21. I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.

Sun Ra

#22. Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.

Edwin Howard Armstrong