Intellectual Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he…

— Gustave Flaubert

Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not…

— Erica Jong

I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities.…

— George Henry Lewes

“Human history’s the most funny and yet the most tragic discovery will be the discovery of the religious people that all religions are man-made!…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The next time you see a sixteen-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a…

— Milton Glaser

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men…

— Claude Bernard

Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.

— Agnes Repplier

To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

To run with the majority during the race of life is to be mediocre all of the time and wrong most of the time.

— Len Smith

We create a standard for how we want to do things and everybody's got to buy into that standard or you really can't have…

— Nick Saban