Mediocre Quotes

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.

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

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

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.