Mediocre Quotes

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great and very specific. It all came together well.

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason.

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.

There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.

I think the more mediocre you are the better you do because people need to think you're their friend, they don't want to be threatened by you, you've got to be warm, you've got to be not too smart, not too pretty, not too anything.

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

I'm not a big fan of mediocre.

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.