Unexceptionality Quotes

#1. He was a mediocre man. He had led a mediocre life exceptional only in the magnitude of its unexceptionality. Now the world was mediocre, rendering him perfect. He asked himself: How can I die? I was always like this. Now I am more me. He had the ammo. He took them all down.

Colson Whitehead

#2. He hovered on unexceptionality.

Colson Whitehead

#3. You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

Barry McGuire

#4. I look at our tree, at its leaves still reaching for the sun, still working to turn light into food. They don't know they are dead yet.

Ally Condie

#5. The individuals in great dyads will be very different from each other and very much alike. These simultaneous extremes generate the deep rapport and energizing friction that define a creative pair.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#6. It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.

James S. Coleman

#7. The secret to acting is don't act. Be you, with add-ons.

Michael Sheen