Rater Quotes & Sayings

How would you like to make money in real estate? — Greg Proops

After politics, journalism has always been the preferred career of the ambitious but lazy second-rater. — Gore Vidal

Whether we make our own money or rely on someone else, many of us would rater pretend our financial matters don't exist. Or we hope they'll just take care of themselves somehow. My ex-husband was like that. He always said, "I bank by prayer. I go to the ATM and pray that money will come out. — Nancy Levin

We should feel grateful instead of entitled. We have a moral obligation to give back. — Bill Courtney

It ain't what you're driving or the clothes that you wear, material possessions won't matter up there. And someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well these rags that I'm wearin' will be fit for a king. — Garth Brooks

I'd rater share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop — Kate Jackson

There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me. — Arundhati Roy

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories. — Jesse Jackson

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. — Ayn Rand

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party. — Vanessa Carlton

All short stories long. — Ali Smith

I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the life-time of his God? — Herman Melville

Some irony. The girl who couldn't face her own bullshit . . . suddenly forcing everyone else to. — Rick Remender

With every year, I always try and learn something new and grow gracefully, and that's just kind of my rule for every year. — Nicole Richie

When someone is looking down, they're saying no. When they're looking up, they're looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they're looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they're feeling sorry - they don't want to answer. — Duane Chapman

I was a wannabe who was actually unable to write because I had nothing to say, who wasn't honest enough with himself to draw the appropriate conclusions and was therefore trying to get a foot in the world of literature at any cost. Not as someone who created something himself, someone who wrote and was published, but as a parasite, as someone who wrote as others wrote, a second-rater. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Ain't nothing greater than an x-rater with a nickname like Vibrator. — Snoop Dogg

You don't have to be straight. You just have to shoot straight. — Stephanie Miller