Apocalypse Quote by Colson Whitehead Download Open image “In the apocalypse, I think those average, mediocre folks are the ones who are going to live.” — Colson Whitehead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Apocalypse Average I think Live Who
Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people. — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
High achievers don't like mediocre people, mediocre people don't like high achievers. — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people. — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
Everyone can be awesome if they want it bad enough. And I don't believe that anyone wants to be average. I think everybody desires… — Jason Ellis Copy Share Image
As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting through Yale… — Angela Bassett Copy Share Image
The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance. — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where I am in my career, or what I'm supposed to be doing. In fact, I'm not supposed to be doing anything. Just finding projects that are challenging to me. I want to be a writer who keeps growing… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
“Every Tuesday, James Fulton (and later, Orville Lever) stood in the downstairs drawing room and lectured on the intricacies of his science. Lectured on the implications of European maintenance deviations on Intuitionism, expounded on the gloom of the shaft and how it does not merely echo the gloom inside every living creature, but duplicates it perfectly. Afterwards there were mint… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The Great War had always been between the white and the black. It always would be. Cora” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The worst sort of scoundrels took up the chase. Drunkards, incorrigibles, poor whites who didn’t even own shoes delighted in this opportunity to scourge… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Don’t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can’t rush inspiration. … Once your subject finds you, it’s like falling… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“its terms? Homer watched her as she dressed, like a valet who had waited on her since the cradle. “I’m caught,” Cora said. “You… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
These days I find myself wanting to avoid being pigeon-holed, ghettoized, held in a different category than other authors. And when people ask me… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, 'The Intuitionist,' takes place in an alternative… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
A South Korean inventor has finally created the robot that mankind has been waiting for. Scientists who have been worried about the robot apocalypse… — Mike Pesca Copy Share Image
If it makes you feel any better, this isn't my first apocalypse. There is hope. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
In the New Testament alone there are Gospels, acts, epistles, and an apocalypse. Gospels contain literary forms like miracles, parables, pronouncements, proverbs, farewell discourses,… — Craig Blomberg Copy Share Image
The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems - the powers, the thrones, the dominations - the things which perpetually merge with men and emerge from them? Our darkness, externalized and visible? However you look upon these matters, the critical point was reached. The wrath… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share
“I once fed a dog-fight operator to the dogs he had abused for so long, and do you want to know something? It felt… — Cedric Nye Copy Share Image
“You and I are victims of the same disease. We're fighting the same war, just different battles in different theaters, and it's way too… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
I've been around long enough now and have learned to be flexible enough to know that every movie isn't going to be Apocalypse Now… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives we already have? It is the question that hovers in the background of every secret phone call, flavors every tryst with the head of possibilities of apocalypse and renewal; and it is the answer to… — Brady Udall Copy Share
The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image