Best Quotes

"The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want"

Brion James, Actor

"You've just got to do the best that you can"

Drew Barrymore, Actress

"The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough"

Barbra Streisand, Actress

"The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice"

Daniel Hannan, Politician

"People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all"

Annie Dillard, Author

"I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do"

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

"All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy"

David Heyman, Producer

"When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end"

Eamon de Valera, Statesman

"The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own"

Alistair Cooke, Journalist

"Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sandwich... My mother's is the best. I've tried many times to make these sandwiches on my own, but it's never the same"

Andy Roddick, Athlete

"She is up there with the best of them. I can only talk about my experience, but it was genuinely special"

Albert Finney, Actor

"No, she is right up there with the best I've worked with. I was very impressed with her, I really was"

Albert Finney, Actor

"All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance"

Audrey Meadows, Actress

"I've gotten my butt kicked by the best. Jet Li beat me up the best, but Steven Segal can still kick a good butt. It's a different kind of kicking, though"

Anthony Anderson, Actor

"When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice"

Allan Sloan

"At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck"

Alanis Morissette, Musician

"The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings"

Balthus, Artist

"I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings"

Balthus, Artist

"Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well"

Anthony Anderson, Actor

"In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"The best revenge is massive success"

Frank Sinatra, Musician

"Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas"

Ron Paul, Politician

"Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning"

Josiah Royce, Philosopher

"People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best"

David Chalmers, Philosopher

"This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom"

Paul Ricoeur, Philosopher

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses"

Elizabeth Taylor, Actress

"I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30"

Shane West, Actor

"All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

"At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists"

Mark Millar, Writer

"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"Yes I still enjoy playing him. He's the best person to play isn't he?"

Tom Felton, Actor

"You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

"It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while"

Luther Burbank, Environmentalist

"For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while"

Luther Burbank, Environmentalist

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