First-Rate Quotes

19 quotes by 19 authors

• 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
• 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
• You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. — Maurice Ravel
• 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
• 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
• I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. — Richard Strauss
• 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 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

Who Wrote These First-Rate Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 19 First-Rate Quotes as follows:

• 1 First-Rate Quote by Michael Smith
• 1 First-Rate Quote by Roy Blunt
• 1 First-Rate Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 1 First-Rate Quote by Judy Garland
• 1 First-Rate Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• 1 First-Rate Quote by Evelyn Waugh
• 1 First-Rate Quote by Abraham Maslow
• 1 First-Rate Quote by B. C. Forbes
• 1 First-Rate Quote by Leo Rosten
• 1 First-Rate Quote by Doris Lessing
• 1 First-Rate Quote by Maurice Ravel
• 1 First-Rate Quote by Franz Liszt
• 1 First-Rate Quote by Arnold Bennett
• 1 First-Rate Quote by Richard Strauss
• 1 First-Rate Quote by A A Milne
• 1 First-Rate Quote by Wes Anderson
• 1 First-Rate Quote by Scott Weiland
• 1 First-Rate Quote by Jon Landau
• 1 First-Rate Quote by Joe Bastianich