Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Ayn Rand

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

Brandon Lee

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

Courtney Love

I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.

Claude Monet

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

David Foster Wallace

Mediocrity is contextual.

Debbi Fields

Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.

Andy Stanley

Will I allow my fear to bind me to mediocrity?

Amelia Barr

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Bill Bryson

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

Al Wolski

I was just wondering if we were ever going to get the ball.

David Elias

I think it's wonderful what we're going through,

Catherine Jones

I was wondering that myself. I don't know.

Douglas Rice

I was wondering if we were going to sink. It was very, very wobbly and very, very dark.

Robert Redford

Julie, it's wonderful to see you. This is Lena.

Karen Armstrong

It can be confusing. But it's a wonderful organization.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Josh Groban

I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.

John Calipari

We were just settling for two many 3s.

Confucius

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

Cindy Gallop

I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.

Janis Joplin

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.

Janis Joplin

You are what you settle for.

Elizabeth I

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

David Ginola

I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.

Yvonne Williams

When I was a child, I'd go down to see the water after a storm, just to see it settling down, for reassurance,

Kara Cook

We're just now settling down. It's a lot of fun.