There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate. — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“never be a second-rate version of someone else, be a first-rate version of yourself” — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“I know some first-class Negroes. I also know some second-rate white people.” — Lesley Kagen Copy Share Image
You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate. — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
“We’ve just got to face the fact that we’re second rate. With the fate of humanity in our hands.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from… — John Simon Copy Share Image
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just… — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
In Formula One, the car can make a difference in a way that a driver cannot. Whereas Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Look, I do not control alpinism. But maybe I was too successful. Many in the mountaineering scene - journalists, second-rate climbers, lecturers,… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has no design to transform America. Donald Trump doesn't think America is second-rate. Donald Trump doesn't think America's guilty. Donald… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique… — John Simon Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
China is the center of the Asian energy security grid, which includes the Central Asian states and Russia. India is also hovering… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
We're worn into grooves by Time-by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate… — Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr Copy Share Image
The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin? — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
