The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do with catching… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders.… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think if I thought I was going to be a mediocre coach, or an average coach, I probably wouldn't do it. — Joey Barton Copy Share Image
With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people. — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
Many people functionally share this belief that work has no greater meaning than the paycheck it provides. A natural consequence of this… — David Kim Copy Share Image
I think the more mediocre you are the better you do because people need to think you're their friend, they don't want… — Kelly Brook Copy Share Image
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I think being mediocre and in the middle would be the worst. It's more interesting to get strong reactions, and to have… — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues. — Doug Harvey Copy Share Image
If you don't have passion, everything you do will ultimately fizzle out or, at best, be mediocre. Is that how you want… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Naked and pure is the spirit that transcends the existence mediocre. — John Wilbanks Copy Share Image
It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
