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
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin? — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate… — Witold Gombrowicz 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men… — G. H. Hardy 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
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
