First Rate Quotes

89 First Rate quotes by 73 unique authors

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 your work when… — Doris Lessing
A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances. — Franz Liszt
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. — Abraham Maslow
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the… — A A Milne
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people. — Leo Rosten
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. — Evelyn Waugh
But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of… — Emily Bronte
If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so… — Martha Gellhorn
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. — Anna Quindlen
We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those… — Peter Drucker
I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully… — 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

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