Quotes:
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
View quotes by B C Forbes
No work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.
View quotes by Gerald Finzi
What'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 Lessing
The 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 Tebbit
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
View quotes by Stan Barstow
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
View quotes by Judy Garland
The 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 Lewis
There 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 Alvarez
The world is going mad at an alarming rate and television is the Typhoid Mary.
View quotes by Edward Robb Ellis
Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)
View quotes by Owen Meredith
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
View quotes by Cyril Connolly
The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.
View quotes by Shannon Miller
All 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 Faulkner
The 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 McCarthy
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
View quotes by H G Wells
Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.
View quotes by Herbert Gold
There has been lots written in the last few weeks about my career, most of it inflated or wrong. As a friend said to me, 'At the rate they're going, leave it a few more days and you'll be Pope'
View quotes by Matthew Pinsent
Men 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 Pound
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.
View quotes by Ben Bagdikian
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
View quotes by Ida Tarbell
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Proverbs:
Desperate Diseases Call For Desperate Remedies
Sunlight Penetrates Even The Thinnest Crack
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