Best Quotes to Inspire and Motivate (Page 17)

"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend"

"My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan"

"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics"

"In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending"

George P. Baker

"Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be"

George P. Baker

"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

"My music is best understood by children and animals"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"I want to say to all of you that when I take my oath of office I will do my absolute best to use all of my abilities for all of the people of Ireland"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how me and J. are. When we're in a room together, we don't have to say anything. It's for real"

Britney Spears, Musician

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

"I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle"

Harold Wilson, Statesman

"If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death"

Alexander Smith, Poet

"I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them"

Dean Rusk, Diplomat

"The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"

Bette Davis, Actress

"Education is not just about academics. It is about building character and helping children become their best selves"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

"The best players will play. That's the way it will always be"

Larry Bird, Coach

"I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"When everything is lonely I can be my best friend"

Conor Oberst, Musician

"Playing live if the thing I love doing best"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"My first day at MGM they decided to bring this lion out, male, and it was not the best time for him to see me. All of a sudden he thought I was in heat and this lion went into the dressing room, which was just a trailer on the sound stage, and went crazy"

Kim Novak, Actress