Mediaocrity Quotes & Sayings

Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch — Dean Cavanagh

... in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose. — Primo Levi

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things. — Lactantius

I'd give a hundred dollars for a cold beer. — Joe Dugan

To show don't tell and all that other writery crap. (Adopted-orphan smile, I mean, that's not bad, come on.) — Gillian Flynn

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God. — Oswald Chambers

Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked. — Franz Kafka

Lord, help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunities to grow as people and become more like you. — Mother Teresa

Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us. — Wayne Coyne

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs. — Vladimir Nabokov

Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The pleasure of homecoming is more than recompense for the pains of setting out, and therefore it is always worth departing. — Louis De Bernieres

In that Malazan Book of the Fallen, the historians will write of our suffering, and they will speak of it as the suffering of those who served the Crippled God. As something ... fitting. And for our seeming fanaticism they will dismiss all that we were, and think only of what we achieved. Or failed to achieve.
And in so doing, they will miss the whole fucking point. — Steven Erikson