Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Brandon Lee

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

Ayn Rand

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

Anton Chekhov

There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue.

Boris Pasternak

Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

Bruce Henderson

Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.

Blaise Pascal

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Luis von Ahn

I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer.

Dennis Robinson

It's not the typical setting. We wanted a homey atmosphere.

Bob Podges

It was a typical Stow-Barberton game. Back-and-forth, down-to-the wire, that's how they all are.

Scott Gomez

It was a typical Scott Stevens win, I guess.

Daryl Hall

The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.

James Hall

Things like that really don't happen, but this is not your typical suburb, it's part of the city.

Barbara Mertz

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

Bobby Robson

Don't ask me what a typical Brazilian is because I don't know what a typical Brazilian is. But Romario was a typical Brazilian.

Scott Norton

This year is not a typical year in any way,

Charles Sturt

It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.

Alan Rickman

The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Anything that God has declared that we should be we can be.

Chinua Achebe

Women and music should not be dated.

Frederic Bastiat

And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works

William Shakespeare

Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end.

Louis C. K.

Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don’t.

Bernard Joseph Saurin

Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.