Quotes of: Rating Keyword

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

Evelyn Waugh

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Barbara Walters

Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.

Mitch Kapor

Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds.

Amit Kalantri

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

Life

The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.

William Weld

It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree.

Robert Gottlieb

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

Michael Bloomberg

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

Franz Liszt

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.

John Engler

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully…

Jo's Boys

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.

Nate Silver

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time.

Maurice Duffy

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

Maurice Ravel

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

Jorge Luis Borges

Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.

Brian Sandoval

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.

Walter Isaacson

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.

Bill Gross

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.

Maria Cantwell

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.

Charlie Sheen