As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions. — Francoise Giroud Copy Share Image
I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version. — Jason Ritter Copy Share Image
I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body. — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap.… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you love everything you do, you will probably end up with mediocre work. I think dissatisfaction with the state of things… — Deborah Solomon Copy Share Image
Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best. — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude,… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
We must reject the idea... Well-intentioned, but dead wrong... That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
“Retaliation retards your excellence. Nelson Mandela would not have been named as a great man if not for his courage to forgive… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Nowadays it is the fashion to pretend that no single individual is ever responsible for a successful advertising campaign. This emphasis on… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride… — Joe Shuster Copy Share Image
We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
The problem is this: in order to make money- lots of money- we don't need flawless literary masterpieces. What we need is… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
I think the key that differentiates the good actors from the mediocre ones that are still trying to come up, is that… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
I got to work with Robert DeNiro once and it was a strange experience. Gwyneth Paltrow and I were doing Great Expectations… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Anything would be better in the US than what you have. As a government it's really very low quality, given the fact… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Everyone has options. They are a fixed set of predetermined scenarios, points of view, perceived limitations that already reside in your data… — Nicholas Lore Copy Share Image
If a legislator is safe from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
