Mediocre Quotes
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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
Ray Bradbury
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Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.
Boland T. Jones
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My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.
Michael Arndt
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That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor.
Michael Arrington
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
Ezra Pound
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You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.
Edwin Catmull
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
Carson McCullers
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For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong.
Northrop Frye
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I actually live a very mediocre lifestyle. So I decided to step back and do things not just for the sake of doing them, but because I believe in them and I want to do them.
Mila Kunis
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
Michael Caine
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I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.
Michael Arndt
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It was a mixed bag pretty much all week. A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad.
Tiger Woods
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Preserve your energy - do not waste it on mediocre activity.
Stuart Wilde
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I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.
Elena Ferrante
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Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.
Haruki Murakami
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It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.
Steven Van Zandt
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A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.
Murray Walker