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The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right?
— Haruki Murakami
First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.
— Amit Kalantri
A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
— Franz Liszt
When I lay down on my deathbed, I want to know that I have done all I could to be a first rate human, not a third rate pawn of the gods.
— Thomm Quackenbush
Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.
— Peter Drucker
The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1.
— Craig Reucassel
There is no second place for doing first rate work.
— Jeffrey Fry
Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
— Judy Garland
It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree.
— Robert Gottlieb
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
You are demoted from First Tiger to bulk rate.
— Bill Watterson
The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.
— Mignon McLaughlin
One person's success is another's first step, only you can rate your achievements and find peace within yourself.
— Robert Zeidan
When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'
— David Morrell
You become like that, what you admire most. By admiring excellence and practicing, it can boost you to become excellent.
— Mark LaMoure
Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.
— Gardner Dozois
You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Ought to be havin' a first-rate eddication, at their age. When I was their age I was doin' all this Latin and stuff
— T.H. White
Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.
— George Bernard Shaw
A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.
— P.M.S. Blackett
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
— Evelyn Waugh
I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully ...
— Louisa May Alcott
For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.
— Wyndham Lewis
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
— Abraham Maslow
There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.
— Richard Armour
I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
— Thomas R. Marshall
To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.
— Eleanor Clark
The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.
— Arnold Bennett
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.
— Leonard Maltin
The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained
— Albert Allen Bartlett
If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction.
— George Leonard
The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.
— Andrew Sarris
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.
— George D. Prentice
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
A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
— Maurice Ravel
American workers are first rate.
— Christopher Dodd
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
As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.
— Thomas De Quincey
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
— Andre Weil
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
— B.C. Forbes
Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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
Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep
— Garrison Keillor
His name was Rayner. First name unknown. By me, at any rate, and therefore, presumably, by you too.
— Hugh Laurie
Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
