Tibor Kalman Quotes

Beige curtains... there's nothing wrong with them. You're not like, 'Ew, gross! Beige curtains!' You just don't notice them either way. They're just, like, fine.

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

Normalcy is not interesting.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

I wasn't into making classmates laugh - or any of the comedy cliches. I wanted to disappear. I was a nonentity. I wasn't too clever but I wasn't in the bottom group. I wasn't loud but I wasn't quiet. I wasn't a bully and I wasn't bullied.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.

I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.

A third rate nonentity whose only recommendation is that he is obnoxious to no one.

I am one of the great army of mediocrity which constitutes the majority.

… the commonest little dog I have ever seen, without one sign of distinction

Mediocrity is obscurity.

Eventually, though, I came to the conclusion that I was the male equivalent of a Toyota Camry. You know: No one ever says, "I have to have a Toyota Camry." But most people who spend some time in a Camry start to like it. "It's pretty reliable," they think. "It doesn't have a lot of problems, and it's not bad to look at. You know what? I'd probably prefer a nicer car. But I can live with a Camry.

The worst thing in the world is to be bland.

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.

He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.

Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.

Half-heartedne ss doesn't reach into majesty.

How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?