First-Rate Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
— Arnold Bennett
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I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane…
— Wes Anderson
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You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
— Maurice Ravel
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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
— Judy Garland
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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
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
— B. C. Forbes
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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
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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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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
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A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
— Franz Liszt
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
— Abraham Maslow
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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
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First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
— Leo Rosten
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We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
— Evelyn Waugh
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I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
— Richard Strauss
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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
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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 Smith
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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
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As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there.
— Scott Weiland
Who Wrote These First-Rate Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 First-Rate Quotes as follows: