The law is sawdust that had already been chewed by a thousand mouths.
In addition to being a great writer, Kafka was a legal scholar and attorney who had earned a Juris Doctor degree.
That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.
I kind of look like every other girl, walking around.
It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.
I'm boring, man.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Nice is OK when it's among other things but never when it stands alone
I understand the all black or all white look (to be perfectly blunt, it's easy and you don't have to think about it very much) but would any of us really want to be one of those people?
I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.
I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.
What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture.
I am one of the great army of mediocrity which constitutes the majority.
People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.
Nice is the worst word.
Perfection is really boring!
To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.
Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.
I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).
I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.
I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.
Late-night television is like the cereal aisle in the supermarket: too many choices. Also, too many 'different' brands that really aren't different at all.