Always be a first-
rate version of yourself, instead of a second-
rate version of somebody else.
View quotes by Judy GarlandThe world may be full of fourth-
rate writers but it's also full of fourth-
rate readers.
View quotes by Stan BarstowThere is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-
rate truck driver than a tenth-
rate executive.
View quotes by B C ForbesWhat's terrible is to pretend that second-
rate is first-
rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
View quotes by Doris LessingThe word 'conservative' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-
rate minds of that third-
rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.
View quotes by Norman TebbitNo work from a first
rate mind is ever really second
rate.
View quotes by Gerald FinziThere is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-
rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi
View quotes by Luis Walter AlvarezGenius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-
Rate Poet)
View quotes by Owen MeredithThe test of a first-
rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
View quotes by F Scott Fitzgerald'The problem, with the Conservative Party is that they are actually going backwards. They have now skipped a generation. At this
rate the next leader will have to be exhumed' - after Michael Howard was made leader
View quotes by Rory BremnerAll of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I
rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
View quotes by William FaulknerYou live and learn. At any
rate, you live.
View quotes by Douglas AdamsThere are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-
rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
View quotes by Jean De La BruyereSleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the
rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
View quotes by Arthur SchopenhauerMen do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any
rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
View quotes by Ezra PoundThe American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any
rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
View quotes by Mary McCarthyWhatever universe a professor believes in must at any
rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
View quotes by William JamesWhen one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell out when she was with her father in Las Vegas, and that tooth fairy left her $5. When I told Elvis that 50 cents would be more in line, he laughed. He knew I was not criticizing him; how would Elvis Presley know the going
rate for a tooth?
View quotes by Priscilla PresleyThe future is something which everyone reaches at the
rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
View quotes by C S LewisWe class schools into four grades: leading school, first-
rate school, good school and school.
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