First Rate Quotes

89 quotes by 73 authors

It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the nation. — David Sarnoff
A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompsonâ€™s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics and its relation… — F. Sionil JosÃ©
Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out… — Alan Bradley
But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate. — Gerald Finzi
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. — Maurice Ravel
You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate — Logan Pearsall Smith
The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never… — William Tecumseh Sherman
We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable… — George Bernard Shaw
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art. — Clive James
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. — Andre Weil
Throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves to accept the… — Michael Denton
Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they… — Peter Drucker
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument… — Ben Bagdikian
If you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up into an electuary with honey,… — Nicholas Culpeper
If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case.… — Edward Tufte
Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent… — Thucydides
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin? — Maurice Ravel
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits. — George D. Prentice
When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate. — Heraclitus

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