First Rate Quotes

89 First Rate quotes by 73 unique authors

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
It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too… — Soren Kierkegaard
To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'. — Eleanor Clark
American workers are first rate. — Christopher Dodd
Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice. — Norman Mailer
Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist. — George Bernard Shaw
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. — Judy Garland
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. — B. C. Forbes
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern… — Jon Landau

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