Unremarkably Well Quotes & Sayings

Democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people. Democracy can hold that devotion only when it adequately respects their dignity by so ordering society as to assure to the masses of men and women reasonable security and hope for themselves and for their children. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

11 WAYS TO BE UNREMARKABLY AVERAGE 1. Accept what people tell you at face value. 2. Don't question authority. 3. Go to college because you're supposed to, not because you want to learn something. 4. Go overseas once or twice in your life, to somewhere safe like England. 5. Don't try to learn another language; everyone else will eventually learn English. 6. Think about starting your own business, but never do it. 7. Think about writing a book, but never do it. 8. Get the largest mortgage you qualify for and spend 30 years paying for it. 9. Sit at a desk 40 hours a week for an average of 10 hours of productive work. 10. Don't stand out or draw attention to yourself. 11. Jump through hoops. Check off boxes. — Chris Guillebeau

The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure. — Robert Ryman

The world turns, that's all. You can hold on and turn with it, or stand up to protest and be spun right off. — Stephen King

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them. — Bernard Malamud

You might as well be perfect. There is really not all that much else to do here that is exciting. — Frederick Lenz

Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life. — Martin Freeman

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas. — Enya

Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting. And for that you need as bad a camera as possible! If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world. — Miroslav Tichy

Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration. — Jane Mayer

Staying alive, as it turns out, is mostly common sense. — Judy Melinek

Jackson was a transformative president in part because he had a transcendent personality; other presidents who followed him were not transformative, and served unremarkably. — Jon Meacham

Funny how a wife can spot a blonde hair at twenty yards, yet miss the garage doors. — Corey Ford

I just reached the point where I realised, I need to stop repeating myself if I'm ever actually going to enjoy the music I'm creating. — Zach Condon

One cannot play fast and loose with what one knows to be true. — Bernard J.F. Lonergan

Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand. — Kenneth E. Boulding