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  • Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

    Men   Poetry   Rate  
    'Ars Poetica' l. 372
  • If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win.

    Daniel Clement Dennett (1998). “Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds”, p.158, MIT Press
  • First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

    Clive James (2015). “From the Land of Shadows”, p.77, Pan Macmillan
  • Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

  • Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. Judy Garland.
  • Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.

  • China is the center of the Asian energy security grid, which includes the Central Asian states and Russia. India is also hovering around the edge, South Korea is involved, and Iran is an associate member of some kind. If the Middle East oil resources around the Gulf, which are the main ones in the world, if they link up to the Asian grid, the United States is really a second-rate power. A lot is at stake in not withdrawing from Iraq.

    Russia   Iran   Korea  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

    Love You   Brain   Use  
    C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.74, HarperCollins UK
  • Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.

    Knowledge   Men   Shining  
    Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.421
  • The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.

    Player   Games   Jars  
  • 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, who would say, We really love this song.

    Song   Kids   Thinking  
  • No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.

    Artist   Blue   Paris  
    "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922". Book by Christoph Vitali, p. 29, 1991.
  • You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials

    Made   Ill   Rate  
    Natalia Ginzburg (1989). “Family Sayings”, p.98, Arcade Publishing
  • Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

    Giving   Facts   Details  
    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.697, GENERAL PRESS
  • The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

    Stupid   Race   Mind  
    Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)
  • The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

  • It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong.

    Fun   Fiction   Firsts  
  • World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals, to assert that they are not provincial or second-rate, thereby confirming that they are.

    Insecure   Class   Cities  
    John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.315, Simon and Schuster
  • First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

  • Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.

    Country   Canada   Mask  
    "National Post" Newspaper, December 8, 2000.
  • Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression at the third remove. The voice of a second-rate person is more impressive than the published opinion of superior ability.

    Reading   Writing   Voice  
    Harold Adams Innis (2007). “Empire and Communications”, p.31, Rowman & Littlefield
  • She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.

  • There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.

    Men   Profound   He Man  
    G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.61, Cambridge University Press
  • The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx.

  • Donald Trump has no design to transform America. Donald Trump doesn't think America is second-rate. Donald Trump doesn't think America's guilty. Donald Trump doesn't think America owes people things. Donald Trump doesn't think that the borders are to be wide open so that anybody who wants here can come here because we've screwed them at some time in the past.

    Thinking   Past   America  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • 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.

    Reading   People   Rooms  
  • 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 you know quite well you're capable of better.

    Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • Somebody asked Somerset Maugham about his place in the pantheon of writers, and he said, "I'm in the very front row of the second rate." I'm sort of haunted by that.

    Pantheon   Said   Rate  
    "A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King". Interview with Ken Tucker, parade.com. May 25, 2013.
  • There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

    Art   Rate   No Point  
  • There is a rawness and a wonder to life. Pursue it. Hunt for it. Sell out to get it. Don't listen to the whines of those who have settled for a second-rate life and want you to do the same so they won't feel guilty. Your goal is not to live long; it's to live.

    Long   Goal   Want  
    Max Lucado (1999). “He Still Moves Stones”, p.66, Thomas Nelson Inc
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