"Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity."

-- J. Irwin Miller

#Mediocrity Quotes

“I intimidate a lot of men, because I've done a lot. I'm established. I'm successful.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: LisaRaye Talks Single Ladies Season 2 and You-Know-Who Leaving". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. March 20, 2012.
“Holy fu-" he starts then catches himself."Yes,this tithe will be most pleasing to her Goodness." Me and Magnus exchange amused glances.”
“There's always music sitting around, but when you're cultivating music, the idea of getting into a studio and compressing it to get something out on time can be really good.”
“There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.”
“Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows thatâ€™s all she can do. That and hope.”
“In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists with similar tastes, from similar backgrounds, and of similar pretensions, Langston Hughes will be to the twentieth century what Walt Whitman was to the nineteenth.”
“If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.”

Source : Mark Kurlansky (1998). “Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World”, p.35, Penguin
“The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.”

Source : "Andrew Johnson, Plebeian and Patriot". Book by Robert Watson Winston, 1928.

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