If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it".
"If you have someone who's truly mediocre in your laboratory--scientists are not very good at this--[you] probably need to have them leave the laboratory".
Battery life is just mediocre: Though your Lumia easily will make it from 9 to 5, you'll get far more juice out of the Galaxy S II and especially the iPhone 4S.
So hide your excuse for your mediocre game and enter the Cow Pasture Golf Classic, where the course's unforgiving ranch land will force you to admit defeat and surrender to the fun.
They are not optional — unless your goal is to be mediocre and spin your wheels every day.
Career advisors, writing counselors, and librarians can become your greatest help towards turning your mediocre student skills into successful ones.
In "China Red," Chi tells her fiancé, Sheng, who has left China for America: If some day you should want to be a successful writer, your success will not depend upon how good your writing is, but upon how much it meets with the approval of the mediocre tastes of your readers.
You're much more likely to go to a mediocre gym near your office or home than to a great gym that's out of your way.
Don't waste your time on mediocre food items - your health is more important than that.
This weekend, though, you'll be there with the squad four lads you've stuck with after university because the the thought of any time alone, genuinely alone, terrifies you to your mediocre, useless core, not because you actually really enjoy their company any more and you'll have semi-danced your way through a few DJs and your head will start to fill with possibile headliners.
