Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole. – Frank Moore Colby
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further. – James Russell Lowell
I am up at 3:30, reading the op-ed pages and getting ready to be on the air by 6 A.M. on the set of Morning Joe, and after three hours of TV and two hours on the radio, it is only 12 noon. – Mika Brzezinski