Unremarkable Quotes

#1. Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.

Epictetus

#2. No life is unremarkable.

Mark Edwards

#3. He went back to being a unremarkable part of the command center, like a particularly dangerous chair.

Larry Correia

#4. I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very ... when I was young I had a real anti-talent for inventing myself as unappealing - craven and unremarkable.

Bill Nighy

#5. Can the future hsitory of the world be so fragile that it will not allow two high school teachers to meet and fall in love? To marry, to dance to Beatles tunes like "I Want to Hold Your Hand," and live unremarkable lives?

Stephen King

#6. Before my wife turned vegetarian, I'd always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way

Han Kang

#7. Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our making - our home.

Gretchen Rubin

#8. The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the appearance of ordinariness is an illusion, and just below the placid surface, the world is seething.

Dean Koontz

#10. Is it hard to sleep when you know you are almost at the end? Do you not want to miss a moment, even those that would otherwise seem dull and unremarkable?

Ally Condie

#11. I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane.

Tana French

#12. The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

Jeffrey Kluger

#13. Recognize now that there was nothing unusual in this: confronted with sudden disaster we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred,

Joan Didion

#14. Life is much the same when it's going well
resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?

Mary Oliver

#15. But imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost.

Michael Pollan

#16. Alone, dying alone. Sentence after apparently unremarkable sentence pass until suddenly I feel myself hit in the solar plexus by the accumulated tension. I look back and ask, How did you do that? I return in memory

Linda Grant

#17. In a long life there are thirty or thirty-five thousand days to be got through, but only a few dozen that really matter, Big Days when Something Momentous Happens. The rest - the vast majority, tens of thousands of days - are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous.

William Landay

#18. It's already clear to me how much of life is forgotten even as it happens. Most of it. The unregarded present spooling away from us, the soft tumble of unremarkable thoughts, the long-neglected miracle of existence.

Ian McEwan

#19. If there is one thing I know, it is this, rich people are remarkably unremarkable.

Brian Tracy

#20. The greatest modern philosopher was moved by nothing more than by duty. His life, in consequence, was unremarkable.

Roger Scruton

#21. Nudity quickly becomes unremarkable when generally practiced.

Martha C. Nussbaum

#22. In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#23. A star has died. Elsewhere in the cosmos, in an unremarkable corner of one galactic arm, a child was born. Such is the balance of existence.

Alan Dean Foster

#24. A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.

Anita Shreve

#25. The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.

Anita Diamant

#26. Spending $100 million on a fancy gym is completely unremarkable in contemporary American higher education. Yet $10 million for a really good online biology course that could serve millions of students is seen as an outlandish, unaffordable expense.

Kevin Carey

#27. No words for the passion. No words for the need.No words for the sheer epiphany of the moment.And so, on an otherwise unremarkable Friday afternoon, in the heart of Mayfair, in a quiet drawing room on Mount Street, Colin Bridgerton kissed Penelope Featherington.And it was glorious.

Julia Quinn

#28. As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect.

Michael Crichton

#29. It's a testament to [Joan Blondell]'s talent that she is so fondly remembered even though so few of her films were even adequate. Her Warners cohorts were given classics while Joan remained the reliable backup in unremarkable films badly needing her gifts.

Eve Golden

#30. Everyday, there are many unremarkable encounters but...
Later on, there will be an encounter big enough to change your life.
That's why, I want to treasure each one of those.

Aya Nakahara

#31. And so, on an otherwise unremarkable Friday afternoon, in the heart of Mayfair, in a quiet drawing room on Mount Street, Colin Bridgerton kissed Penelope Featherington.

Julia Quinn

#32. True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.

Eckhart Tolle

#33. She and I would trade books, talk endlessly, drink cheap whiskey, engage in unremarkable sex. You know, the stuff of everyday.

Haruki Murakami

#34. Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin and they end with no lasting memory made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life.

Scott Neustadter

#35. There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved.

Irvine Welsh

#36. Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.

Robert Stephens

#37. And Oscar would tell the old man his only regret: that he was living the unremarkable life his parents had always expected from him.

Benjamin Wood

#38. How much does the iron in your blood and the calcium in your bones remember of the heart of the star in which they were born? And if they can forget that terrible, magnificent heat and light, what hope do I have of being more than an unremarkable footnote to you?

Seanan McGuire

#39. Advertising is a tax paid for being unremarkable.*" If that is true, then this tax is rising fast, which is good news for the government - not to mention production companies, media sellers, and agencies -

Joseph Jaffe

#40. Seeing her step so easily from the pantry and emerge looking precisely as she did when she entered, only happier, taught Sula that sex was pleasant and frequent, but otherwise unremarkable.

Toni Morrison

#41. I had this theory. It was based loosely on the unremarkable observation that the old are always looking back with longing while the young, with the same longing, look ahead. One man remembers what the other imagines.

Thomas Lynch

#42. You're just jealous."
"Hardly. Been there, done you. Adequate, but unremarkable.

Jennifer Estep

#43. Advertising is a tax for having an unremarkable product

Robert Stephens

#44. Bink," said Gollie, "I must inform you that you are giving a home to a truly unremarkable fish."
"I love him" said Bink.

Kate DiCamillo

#45. Marketing is the price you pay for being unremarkable.

Robert Stephens

#46. It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

Lev Grossman

#47. They've never had to make any real decisions at all. Their lives are easy and unremarkable. They're not awake.

Matthew Quick

#48. The real gladiators of the world are so humble in their origins and unremarkable in appearance that when we stand next to them in a grocery-store line, we never guess how brightly their souls can burn in the dark.

James Lee Burke

#49. It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

Banana Yoshimoto

#50. It is time to float on the waters of the night.
Time to wrap my arms around this book
and press it to my chest, life preserver
in a sea of unremarkable men and women,
anonymous faces on the street,
a hundred thousand unalphabetized things,
a million forgotten hours.

Billy Collins

#51. My academic career was indifferent to the point of beauty- I was so unremarkable, in every way, that the unvarying precision of my mediocrity achieves a kind of loveliness

Mil Millington

#52. In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#53. The notion that business and government are and should be partners is ubiquitous, unremarkable, and repeated like a mantra by leaders in both domains. It seems a compelling and innocuous idea - until you think about what it really means.

Joel Bakan

#54. The ones who stay unnoticed often see the most. They live out other people's lives, since their own are so unremarkable ...

Setona Mizushiro

#55. Tristan, I can tell you that every man I ever envied when I was a boy has led an unremarkable life. So you don't fit with the popular crowd. Now, I take that as a very good omen.

Neil Gaiman

#56. Unremarkable, but with a brainy arrogance wafting from them.

Gillian Flynn

#57. If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it.

Ransom Riggs

#58. Cohen was on his knees taking a picture of a passing cloud, an unremarkable cirrus shaped as if it were sketched expressly for a meteorology textbook, its immortality assured only through the wild Polish luck of having passed the former concentration camp on the day of Cohen's visit.

Gary Shteyngart

#59. And I wanted to be able to listen, to digest the bloody images, to paint them flat and unremarkable onto the vase of posterity. To release him from it and make him Achilles again.

Madeline Miller

#60. This is a story of art without markets, drama without a script, narrative without progress. The queer art of failure turns on the impossible, the improbable, the unlikely, and the unremarkable. It quietly loses, and in losing it imagines other goals for life, for love, for art, and for being.

J. Jack Halberstam

#61. I disliked the attitude of those who came up from the cities to hunt - their braggadocio, their faux machismo, the unpleasant transformative effect of guns and camouflage on otherwise unremarkable men, for in my experience it was generally men who hunted in this way.

John Connolly

#62. Becoming unremarkable, invisible, compliant--these were useful tricks for a black man in a white neighborhood. Survival techniques.

Victor LaValle

#63. For the average person, terrible days are scattered sporadically amongst unremarkable days. Nobody should settle for average.

Paul Gaskill