Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Cora

I think that's pretty good because most of the time the line drives that you hit either late or early are the ones you crush and go down the lines. I think it would help.

Kevin Thomas

He was just crushing them by the end of the year. That was about as dominant as I've ever had a horse. Just to win at the Meadowlands is something, and the way he was doing it up there was special.

Colin Murray

He had no idea what Matthews was doing, and he was crushed when he found out.

Richelle Mead

I wanted him. I arched my back, fully aware of how vulnerable that made me and that I was giving him an invitation. He accepted it and laid me back against the table, bringing his body down on top of mine. That crushing kiss of his moved from my mouth to the nape of my neck. He pushed down the edge of my dress and the bra strap underneath, exposing my shoulder and giving his lips more skin to conquer.

Russell Baker

Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it.

Russell Brand

What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.

Rose McGowan

I'd never even seen orange cheese. I mean, who decided to make that orange? And so there was something different about me that they wanted to crush. I don't think it had anything to do with my physicality, but every single day in school it was, "You're the ugliest thing I've ever seen."

Tre Cool

I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents.

Rick Riordan

I had a crush on Percy," Nico spat. "That's the truth. That's the big secret.

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.

John Dewey

Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Haruki Murakami

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

Joe Manchin

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Half talent is no talent.

Rian Johnson

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

Robert Toombs

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

Tove Jansson

It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.

Robin Morgan

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

Veronica Roth

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

Bob Taylor

I'll probably be working. To the ordinary run-of-the-mill person, I think this will just be another day.

Narciso Rodriguez

For me, it is exciting to see a woman take a chance and wear something out of the ordinary.

James Howe

A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. —Joe Bunch

Libba Bray

There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.