Best Quotes

"Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live"

Shelley Winters, Actress

"My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self"

Neil LaBute, Director

"I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions"

Jeremy Northam, Actor

"Translation is at best an echo"

George Borrow, Author

"Good is often the enemy of best"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"We can make science personal, like a love story or your best friend"

Jim Sullivan, Musician

"Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best"

John Webster, Playwright

"A hungry dog hunts best"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

"I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work"

Julian Bond, Activist

"All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

"Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings"

Robert Herrick, Poet

"Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"The best 45 years of my life were the 5 years I spent with Ton Jones"

Jim Sullivan, Musician

"Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people"

Fred Rogers, Celebrity

"Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter"

Nadine Gordimer, Novelist

"The best actors do not let the wheels show"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize"

Warren Farrell, Writer

"Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it"

Sam Ewing, Athlete

"Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is"

Frank Herbert, Writer

"I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary"

Larry Wall, Author

"Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond"

Hypatia, Philosopher

"If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"But my answer to that question would have to be, aside from the obvious, which is the people and the relationships that you garner over a long period of time but the catering. The catering. They're the best. So it's the food"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"The new co-operation government will do the best it can to address the country's problems, and I believe that with the co-operation of all - and the new government stresses this - and the unity of all, we will achieve that"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

"We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"As a professional athlete, I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can"

Hidetoshi Nakata, Athlete

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