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Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...

“Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.”

Men Firsts Age Fall Old Age Mediocre

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Two Bigs Results Secret Produce Promise Okay Ems Mediocre Fabulous

Author:Peter Lynch

“A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive"; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture - in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.”

“Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.”

Writing Years Two Country Poet Hundred Deserve Mediocre Literacy Nicaragua

Book:The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas

Source: The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas

“For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong.”

People Giving Writing Literature Sound Emotion Serious Release Formulas Conventions Mediocre Exploits Good Writers

Book:Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962

Source: Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962

“Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.”

People Ifs Want Looks Character Turns Speak Natural Answers Knowing Heard Air Type Conversation Capable Property Superiors Repeats Mediocre Better Than You Knowing Better

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more of my time than I like. Meanwhile I hope that the second time this expenditure of time will be much less, otherwise I would never be able to reconcile myself to it, even practical (astronomical) work must give far more satisfaction than if one brings up to B a couple more mediocre heads which otherwise would have stopped at A.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Able Science Courses Education Couple Cost First Time Winter Satisfaction Practicals My Time Occupation Mediocre Lectures Reconcile Expenditures

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach.”

Men Years Made Loses Ability Trouble Coaches Despise Mediocre Good Coaches

Author:Woody Hayes

“Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education”

Men Book Literature Interest Poor Defense Profession Professors Mediocre

Author:Yvor Winters

“My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.”

Actors Involved Mediocre Being Me Biggest Fear

Author:Jonathan Brandis

“I think the more mediocre you are the better you do because people need to think you're their friend, they don't want to be threatened by you, you've got to be warm, you've got to be not too smart, not too pretty, not too anything.”

People Thinking Want Needs Smart Warm Threatened Mediocre

Author:Kelly Brook

“There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.”

Germany Pockets Mediocre Spain Austria Great Food Morocco Croatia

Author:Mario Batali

“I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.”

Ifs England British Ridiculous Composer Mediocre

Author:John Corigliano

“Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.”

Needs Different Purpose Fiction Radio Driving Mediocre

Author:Ira Glass

“My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.”

Mediocre Screenplays

Author:Michael Arndt

“He's only mediocre, jealousy can't get with me.”

Mediocre

Author:LL Cool J

“I'm not a big fan of mediocre.”

Bigs Fans Mediocre

Author:Marcia Gay Harden

“Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.”

Men Writing Stars Great Men Mediocre Movie Star Realised

Author:Diane Keaton

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