I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. — Paul-Jean Toulet Copy Share Image
A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck. — Donald Horne Copy Share Image
Be the first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else! — Cherry Forever Copy Share Image
It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. —Judy Garland” — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders, they do… — Laozi Copy Share Image
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men continue to misinterpret the second-rate status of women as implying a privileged status for themselves; heterosexuals think the same way about… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals,… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy to believe that a… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
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… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I wish and will continue to wish, that the German people should learn that by reason of practical examples afforded by their… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It was important to me to change the narrative. It's important because it has an impact on everything you do. It doesn't… — Mo Abudu Copy Share Image
It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate. — Horace Copy Share Image
“Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck.” — Donald Horne Copy Share Image
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art. — Clive James Copy Share Image
“I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Somebody asked Somerset Maugham about his place in the pantheon of writers, and he said, "I'm in the very front row of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
