Controversy is what mediocre
Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can’t communicate anything meaningful. G. Willow Wilson
Mediocre
Be not cheap or
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring. Ezra Pound
I made a conscious
I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre. Evangeline Lilly
Mediocre people have an
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 … Read more
I got to work
I got to work with Robert DeNiro once and it was a strange experience. Gwyneth Paltrow and I were doing Great Expectations movie together and we were complaining about what a mediocre film experience it was. DeNiro showed up on set and all of a sudden the director got better, the director of photography got … Read more
Mediocre prose might be
Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn’t good, it wasn’t poetry. It was that simple. Erica Jong
Publishers, theatrical managers, and
Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale, will it suit the palate of the people? Alas, this palate is like a dumping ground; it relishes anything that needs no mental mastication. As a result, the mediocre, the ordinary, the commonplace … Read more
Tragic paradox of freedom:
Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration. Emile M. Cioran
Television is such a
Television is such a mediocre medium. Elizabeth Montgomery
the great is seldom
the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre Elizabeth Hardwick