Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Hardwick

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Carolyn Kwan

The overall tone of the report is pretty mediocre at this point.

Cyril Connolly

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

Alfred Jarry

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

David Frost

Prospects for services are mediocre and the sector will struggle to regain dynamism.

Nitsan Hargil

They have nothing to celebrate. Revenues were just 'blah' all around. Very mediocre in all segments.

LL Cool J

He's only mediocre, jealousy can't get with me.

Pope Francis

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

Oscar Wilde

To be popular I must be mediocre.

Robert Gottlieb

We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others.

Plato

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Henry Winkler

Mr. Cunningham would have gone over to his neighbors and had a family meeting with them and talked it out over cake. ... Happy Days

Jay Wright

Obviously this was an incredible Big East battle. We just said to ourselves, this is BIG EAST game No. 1 - it tells you what this league will be like...Timely shots by Allan Ray, Jason Frazier and Dante Cunningham kept us in the game. Every time Louisville made runs at us, those guys made big plays. Game number one in the Big East, that's what it's going to be like.

George Savile

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool

Anthony Hopkins

I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.

Doug Smith

He's a very accomplished guy. Even though Cunningham was a big-time player, I feel comfortable that D.J. can come in and provide us with those kinds of numbers.

Keith Ashdown

Under this bill, Duke Cunningham still would be able to get away with trading bribes for earmarks.

William Shakespeare

The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

Robbie Guertin

We've all got lots of different influences. We never sit down to write a song and say, 'This is going to be a Brian Eno type of song,' or 'This is a Bob Dylan song.' It's totally little bits of lots of different stuff that come together and hopefully it's something coming out of us that we're creating.

Chris Lilley

There are bits of me in all my characters.

Helen Petrauskas

There are some groups who say that Firestone's tire recall should be expanded. They offer small bits of information but lack the complete picture. These kinds of suggestions will make the situation worse.

Greg Austin

When you tear out insulation from the wall or something like that and it comes out in bits and pieces all you do is tear it all out.

Norman Finkelstein

I no longer say I'm unemployed. I say I'm unemployable. It's different. An unemployed suggests at a certain point in the future, you might be employed. That's not the case with me. I'm unemployable, and unfortunately, that's one of the bits of the web, in particular of Google.

Pete Carroll

With the little bits I have, no. I'm not concerned about that one bit. I'm more concerned with helping the process and making sure everything comes to the front.

Mike Riley

We're just hauling out the last bits of debris.

Tom Wilkinson

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

Ellen Klages

My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context.