Best Quotes

"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"The best place a person can die, is where they die for others"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"Everybody I talked to - from my friends to my family and some of the players - really gave me a lot of support from the start. And that certainly made me feel good about trying to come back and be one of the best again"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited"

John Cleese, Actor

"It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites"

Lord Acton, Historian

"A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study"

Saul Bellow, Novelist

"The best way to keep a friend is to be one"

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Poet

"The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day"

Imran Khan, Politician

"Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends"

Maria Callas, Musician

"In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else"

William Howard Taft, President

"Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them"

P. G. Wodehouse, Writer

"If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it"

Richard Burton, Actor

"Financial service providers act as the lubricating oil in the economy. They link consumers who want to invest their savings for a good return with companies who want to borrow on best terms for expansion"

John Bruton, Politician

"Now it is just this world we like the best, the Germanic world, the world of Nordic life"

Heinrich Himmler, Criminal

"The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Writer

"You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward"

Andre Agassi, Athlete

"Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages"

James Madison, President

"You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best"

Andrew Carnegie, Businessman

"All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination"

Wislawa Szymborska, Poet

"No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win"

William Howard Taft, President

"If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid"

Homer, Poet

"And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive"

Jayne Mansfield, Actress

"Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents"

Imran Khan, Politician

"Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me"

Hakeem Olajuwon, Athlete

"A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it"

Wilhelm Steinitz, Celebrity

"Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating"

Simon Pegg, Comedian

"That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends"

Maria Callas, Musician

"The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily"

Paul Westerberg, Musician

"Politics is the art of the next best"

Otto von Bismarck, Leader

"But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions"

Homer, Poet

"I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going"

Sean Connery, Actor

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