I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully…
Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time.
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.
I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings.
If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.
But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates.
The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.
The choice we face is not, as many imagine, between heaven and hell. Rather, the choice is between heaven and this world. Even a fool would exchange hell for heaven; but only the wise will exchange this world for heaven.
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
A human is a community of 50 trillion cells, and when you understand that, you realize they're all living entities. They have their own little world down there, and all cells have jobs, and they all live in a community, and they exchange energy like ...
Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.
I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.
I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.
Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework.
There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.
Our rate moves will have an impact on the economy in 2013. Whether we raise or lower rates depends on how the economic situation develops.
With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.
We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.
