Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Adam Levine

I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

Nicolas Cage

Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.

Joe Klein

You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.

Joe Klein

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

Reba McEntire

Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed.

Cesare Lombroso

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

Charles Lamb

We encourage one another in mediocrity.

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,

Benedict Cumberbatch

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

Blaise Pascal

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Brandon Lee

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

Anton Chekhov

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

Baltasar Gracian

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

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.

Carrie Brownstein

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

Carrie Fisher

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

Bethenny Frankel

Truthfully, my life is always lunacy.

Arsene Wenger

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

Djuna Barnes

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.

David Rubenstein

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.

Aaron Swartz

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

Alan Alda

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.