First Rate Quotes

89 quotes by 73 authors

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfullyâ€¦ — Louisa May Alcott
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information. I attribute it to the superior… — Oscar Wilde
There's always a 'but' when it comes to jobs. Like, I love my job but my colleagues are first-rate, but...a couple of them like to… — Nicholas Sparks
I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes… — John Updike
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. — Richard Strauss
A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work. — Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett
Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they… — Michael Shurtleff
Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get… — Michael Shurtleff
A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are… — Herbert Muschamp
Always be a first-rate version of yourself. — Audrey Hepburn
I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold. — Joe Bastianich
I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours… — Michael W. Smith
More than anything else, a budget request is a statement of national priorities; a clear enumeration of what our country needs to grow its economy… — Roy Blunt
As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there. — Scott Weiland
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave important private interests go unwatched… — Mark Twain
Always be a first-rate version of yourself rather than a second-rate version of somebody else. — Babloo
Always be a first rate version of yourself. Not a second rate version of someone else. — Camilia
Be the first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else! — Cherry Forever
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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