Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.
I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.
Envy is the religion of the mediocre
I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.
I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise
Possibilities are completely different. When you ask 'what is possible?' you must stretch your imagination out of the confines of the familiar. To live a life beyond the mediocre, ask not 'what are my options?' but 'What is possible?'
There's too much bad. The worst is mediocre. Bad is easy. There's high quality, there's pornography, and then there's bad.
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre.
If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
We [Desaparecidos] have to make the message and the music and the packaging as appealing as possible - as Taco Bell as possible: mediocre and no one can be offended by it and everyone can sort of enjoy it and we can play it on the radio.
I don't like being mediocre. I won't be.
A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!