I'm really just an ordinary person.
To keep the ball rolling I asked Marlow if this Powell was remarkable in any way. “He was not exactly remarkable,” Marlow answered with his usual nonchalance. “In a general way it’s very difficult to become remarkable. People won’t take sufficient notice of one, don’t you know.”
A third rate nonentity whose only recommendation is that he is obnoxious to no one.
Referring to Rutherford B. Hayes and his Republican nomination for president:
I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.
Guess what? I am an ordinary person.
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.
He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.
I was just an okay person.