Unspectacular Quotes

#1. They are ...
in their own, unspectacular way, to which no ballads are written or songs sung, in a domestic, daily, life-being-lived way,
... happy

Claire North

#2. Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.

Dieter Rams

#3. Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

Robert H. Schuller

#4. Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table,

Louise Penny

#5. In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.

Roger Staubach

#6. Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.

Roger Staubach

#7. Spectacular achievements come from unspectacular preparation.

Roger Staubach

#8. An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not. System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.

Phil Jackson

#9. My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in Montana. That helped broaden my palate generally, but I know it informed my distaste for factory farms and unspectacular commercial meat.

Steve Albini

#10. It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown ... In the last analysis it is this courage, developing between man and his limitations, that brings success.

Alice Foote MacDougall

#11. Balefully at his figures, rumpling a hand through his

Diana Gabaldon

#12. theology is the rare science that finds it necessary to demonstrate the very existence of its subject matter.

Sherwin T. Wine

#13. No, the hero interests Dostoevsky as a particular point of view on the world and on oneself, as the position enabling a person to interpret and evaluate his own self and his surrounding reality.

Mikhail Bakhtin

#14. I kill on order. I am everyone's assassin. I belong to no one but the grim reaper herself.

Katherine Ewell

#15. There's an art to making something look good when, on a hanger, it's just a black coat.

Daria Werbowy

#16. We're strong for each other ! It's what women do!" said Zelda to Pearl
"He Counts Their Tears" by Mary Ann D'Alto

Mary Ann D'Alto

#17. I felt like the end of an A-Team episode when everything worked out, and the heroes all got to go home and live happily ever after while the bad guys were put in jail. Except of course, I was the bad guy.
Whatever.

Shay Savage

#18. 36. It is only diligence that makes man to have the desired well being

Sunday Adelaja

#19. I'm not complicated at all. I say raps that your two-year-old son can learn.

Snoop Dogg

#20. The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

John Ruskin

#21. I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this and they should sound like this," it gives you a direction. I like having that kind of assignment.

Beck

#22. I've been car crazy my whole life, since I was nine years old. It's just something I'm very aware of.

Jerry Seinfeld

#23. What? I have a cold. Don't get a look of terror on your face. The worst that could happen is that you'll get a cold, too. You don't have to theatrically Purell a thousand times a day and look all panicky every time I come into the room.

Mindy Kaling

#24. For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.

Donnie Wahlberg

#25. Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.

Guy Gavriel Kay