Second-Rate Quotes

20 quotes by 20 authors

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation,… — Paul McCartney
Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate. — Bruce Oldfield
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. — Jean de la Bruyere
As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. — Margaret Atwood
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. — Judy Garland
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. — Cyril Connolly
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures,… — Sam Houston
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 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
Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent… — Marjane Satrapi
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. — Richard Strauss
I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy. — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers… — Yotam Ottolenghi
In Formula One, the car can make a difference in a way that a driver cannot. Whereas Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna spent their early… — Martin Jacques
In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that. — Andrew Ross Sorkin
There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition,… — G. H. Hardy
I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see… — John Boyne
It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was… — Wayne Kramer

Who Wrote These Second-Rate Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 20 Second-Rate Quotes as follows: