Deserve Quote by Gary Shteyngart

When you drink water, don't forget the fountain.

— Paulo Coelho

“If you have found the secret of immortality, don't take a megaphone and announce it to the whole world! Give this secret only to…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“There is something more difficult than finding immortality, and that is to make a list of people who deserve immortality after finding it!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“You care for empresses and queens?” I asked him. “No. For tragic heroines.” “Why them?” “Suffering and courageous women who deserve their own immortality.”

— Ronald Frame

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

— Criss Jami

I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject…

— Alfred de Vigny

“Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes…

— Ayn Rand

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

— Oscar Wilde

Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun…

— Boris Pasternak

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

— Oscar Wilde

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the…

— Tommy Lee Jones

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

— Cesare Lombroso

It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.

— Anton Webern

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

— Theodor Reik

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.

— William James