Mediocrities Everywhere Quotes & Sayings

There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the time. — Erwin Chargaff

I've lost 12 inches in three weeks. Every time I go for the costume fitting each week, it's smaller and smaller. I'm feeling great. I'm putting in the work. I'm getting a lot of sleep. Everything is on the backburner right now. 'Dancing' is my priority. — Ricki Lake

I was interested in this because it bore out an opinion of mine that philosophy is an affair of character rather than of logic: the philosopher believes not according to evidence, but according to his own temperament; and his thinking merely serves to make reasonable what his instinct regards as true. — W. Somerset Maugham

And he was the reason I felt it. His gaze, his touch, his smile, his laugh, no one had ever made me feel ... worshiped ... quite like he did. — S.C. Stephens

Hold a bottle by the neck and a woman by the waist. Never the other way around. — Amitav Ghosh

The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present. — Baruch Spinoza

I know that charity covereth a multitude of sins; but it does not call evil good, because a good man has done it; it does not excuse inconsistencies, because the inconsistent brother has a high name and a fervent spirit; crookedness and worldliness are still crookedness and worldliness, though exhibited in one who seems to have reached no common height of attainment. — Charles Spurgeon

I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative. — Steve Ballmer

Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile. — Marcel Proust

We and we alone have the power to change our lives, and we can choose to do so at any moment. — Debbie Ford

Maybe being a good parent is about improvisation and spontaneity. Maybe it's about genuinely being with your kid. Sometimes though, it is also about being able to catch sick in yours hands. — Keith Stuart

Z knew the fed EX-tinction package had arrived and wasn't ready to take delivery — J.R. Ward

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical. — Abraham Verghese

When I hear young people today complain about being bored - and the things that keep them from being bored are generally exclusively videogames and/or computer pastimes - I just try to encourage them to go outside. — Nick Offerman