I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.

- Doug Harvey

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

- Jean de la Bruyere

No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.

- James Cash Penney

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

- Helen Garner

When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own.

- Henry Rollins

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Television is such a mediocre medium.

- Elizabeth Montgomery

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

- Edward Burtynsky

Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.

- Donald Tusk

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

- Diane Keaton

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

- Donna Tartt

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

- Chet Atkins

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

- Claude Bernard

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

- Brigitte Bardot

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

- Brigitte Bardot

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

- Billy Wilder

I have played 50 different kinds of fathers and villains. Only mediocre actors play the part the same way.

- Anupam Kher

A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.

- A. R. Rahman

Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu