#mediocre

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#life #mediocre #life

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #creativity #disagreeable #envy #intimidating

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#badly #behaved #dirty #i #i am

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. ↗

— Simone Weil

#anything #because #being #concluding #contrary

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#mediocre #something #track

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#mediocre #more #than

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#fairies #gifts #good #good and bad #i

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. ↗

— Uta Hagen

#extraordinary #leads #mediocre #must #notion

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go. ↗

— Uta Hagen

#angry #get #go #i #i think

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#hard #i #many #mediocre #mediocre men