Best Quotes

"Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom"

Mary Renault, Novelist

"The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself"

Karl Barth, Theologian

"Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep"

Catherine O'Hara, Actress

"I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired"

Zane Grey, Author

"Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best"

Thomas Wolfe, Novelist

"Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice"

Robert Kagan, Writer

"The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it"

Cillian Murphy, Actor

"We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product"

Adam Osborne, Author

"I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow"

Adam Osborne, Author

"So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out"

Ville Valo, Musician

"I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically"

Tom Jenkinson, Musician

"One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from"

Terri Windling, Artist

"If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft"

Snoop Dogg, Musician

"The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant"

Roy Wood, Musician

"I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can"

Mandy Patinkin, Actor

"One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless"

Liz Smith, Journalist

"The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy"

John Dillinger, Criminal

"Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show"

Fanny Brice, Comedian

"If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business"

Jim DeMint, Politician

"We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best"

Sean Lennon, Musician

"The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much I could do"

Claudio Reyna, Athlete

"Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have"

Brian McKnight, Musician

"I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game"

Jason Patric, Actor

"The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness"

Edwin Booth, Actor

"But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls"

Edwin Booth, Actor

"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage"

Mark Russell, Writer

"I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh"

Tom Jenkinson, Musician

"The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god"

Scott Alexander, Author

"I don't watch a lot of featherweight fights yet some of those fights are the best fights ever"

Robert Goulet, Musician

"I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that"

Morris Chestnut, Actor

"We're all just playing our own game. I don't see it as a rivalry. We're just trying to play our best"

Michelle Wie, Athlete

"If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun"

Margaret Haddix, Author

"It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays"

Malcolm Wilson, Politician

"I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"Get the best people and train them well"

Scott McNealy, Businessman

"Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again"

Julia Cameron, Author

"So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all"

Steve Forbert, Musician

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