“Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck.” — Donald Horne Copy Share Image
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate. — Horace Copy Share Image
Be the first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else! — Cherry Forever Copy Share Image
“I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art. — Clive James Copy Share Image
A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
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
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of being a second-rate version of someone else.” — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of… — Kurt Cobain 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
Do not let anyone, of any sex, tell you that your intuitions and insights, your wisdom and your understandings, are somehow second-rate… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy. — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that. — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
“I think I was about twenty-five when I first said - more or less to myself - that I was quite a… — John Pudney Copy Share Image
The idea that Bill Gates (one of the founders of Microsoft) has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the… — John Buchan 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck. — Donald Horne Copy Share Image
Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin? — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. — Paul-Jean Toulet Copy Share Image
