Best Quotes

"In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself"

Michael Ritchie, Director

"Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll"

Jimmy Connors, Athlete

"I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them"

Daniel Smith, Politician

"I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition"

Claudio Reyna, Athlete

"I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy"

Richard Marx, Musician

"I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies"

William H. Macy, Actor

"You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble"

Mark Russell, Writer

"When it comes to making love, I may not be the best, but I'm damn gouda"

Ryan Stiles, Actor

"The fans have been really incredible everywhere we've been. You want to make sure you put on the best concert of your life to show them how appreciative you are"

Jonathan Davis, Musician

"Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline"

Jeff Bingaman, Politician

"Free is the best. Anything free is good"

Sandra Bullock, Actress

"He who keeps his cool best wins"

Norman Cousins, Author

"Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can"

Richard Stallman, Scientist

"The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once"

E. Joseph Cossman, Businessman

"Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of"

Sarah Orne Jewett, Author

"You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels"

Tobias Wolff, Writer

"I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels"

Tobias Wolff, Writer

"How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!"

Max Muller, Educator

"By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made"

Kate Middleton, Celebrity

"The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend"

Walter Winchell, Journalist

"These dudes were 30 years old, and they would compete about getting the best chick. That came before their friendships. Some of them treat women like they're objects. I never felt like that"

Brian Welch, Musician

"We want to learn all the game and play the best way and take to our advantage"

Peter Bondra, Athlete

"I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle"

Mikhail Kalashnikov, Inventor

"As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night"

Robin Hayes, Politician

"I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it"

Kristen Bell, Actress

"In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars"

Paul Hoffman, Celebrity

"My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can"

Jim Dine, Artist

"My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids"

Jack Prelutsky, Poet

"Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes"

Christine McVie, Musician

"The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day"

Orlando A. Battista, Author

"Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now"

Picabo Street, Athlete

"The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can"

Mandy Patinkin, Actor

"Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth"

James D'arcy, Actor

"You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you"

Matthew Modine, Actor

"It takes a little work to be a vegan, but now it's really possible to have tasty stuff and it's better for you. I say the best test is go as far as you can and see how you feel. Personally, I feel great"

Grace Slick, Musician

"If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

"What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch"

Alan Hansen, Athlete

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