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
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
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
“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
Buddha and Christ were second-rate heroes. The greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. They put forth no claims for themselves,… — Swami Vivekananda 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
We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of… — Camille Paglia 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've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves… — Francoise Sagan 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