Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

Benjamin Franklin

The excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue

Bruce Schneier

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

Meister Eckhart

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

Eric Thomas

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Helen Thomas

You're only as good as your last story.

John Dryden

And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.

Luc de Clapiers

It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.

Oscar Wilde

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Monica Denise Brown

That Monica who's just gonna sit there in mediocrity... That Monica died in Samoa

Raila Odinga

The mediocrity with which Africa has been ruled is responsible for its underdevelopment.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Haruki Murakami

Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.

Eddie McGuire

The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily,

Charles Lamb

We encourage one another in mediocrity.

Cesare Lombroso

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

Sara Blakely

Everything in our society is so purposeful.

Sally Ride

It's too bad our society isn't further along.

Kitty Kelley

I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.

R. D. Laing

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

Shirley Chisholm

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Bill Nye

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

Edwin Land

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

Dan Ariely

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

Billy Crudup

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.