No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin? — Maurice Ravel 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
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art. — Clive James 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
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
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
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
When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.' — David Morrell Copy Share Image
As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't,… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive. — Mary Jane Ward 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
Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in… — Stephen Neill Copy Share Image
After 10 years TNA talent still have an inferiority complex. If you don't think that you work for the BEST COMPANY EVER… — Chris Jericho 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
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
There is a rawness and a wonder to life. Pursue it. Hunt for it. Sell out to get it. Don't listen to… — Max Lucado 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
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
Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
