There's too much bad. The worst is mediocre. Bad is easy. There's high quality, there's pornography, and then there's bad.
Moderation assures mediocrity -- nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre -- simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow.
I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.
A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.
. . . the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.
I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre. " That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds.
Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.
God doesn't do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it's not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.
Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.
I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.
'Media' is the plural for 'mediocre'.
I just don't think it honors God to create mediocre art.
I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.
I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.
Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.
Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre
If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
A high church for the true mediocre.
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent