Best Quotes

"Even though we didn't actually record it as the Move I had already written a song called 'Dear Elaine,' which I subsequently put on the Boulders album. I thought at the time that was probably the best song I'd written"

Roy Wood, Musician

"I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action"

Morris Chestnut, Actor

"My family and I took visits to each and every school and listened to each coaching staff. I felt the most comfortable with and really excited about playing at SC. Being close to home in one of the best offensive systems is paying off now as I'm making the jump to the pros"

Mark Sanchez, Athlete

"Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game"

Nancy Lopez, Athlete

"Watching a good actor is the best way to learn"

Kieran Culkin, Actor

"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well"

William Osler, Scientist

"I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve"

John Mayer, Musician

"The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world"

Jim Walsh, Politician

"I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind"

Jimmy Connors, Athlete

"I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that"

Lesley Garrett, Musician

"I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight"

Rocky Marciano, Athlete

"People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana"

Billy Tauzin, Politician

"I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck"

Arthur Golden, Writer

"Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possible"

David Obey, Politician

"The best time to make friends is before you need them"

Ethel Barrymore, Actress

"The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it"

Terri Windling, Artist

"By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six"

Ted Lindsay, Athlete

"I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'. I knew he was going to in my heart. I accepted it. I couldn't pick a more perfect person to get second place to. He's my best friend"

Lauren Alaina, Musician

"I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa"

Claudio Reyna, Athlete

"My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood"

Kim Elizabeth

"So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me"

Brandi Chastain, Athlete

"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read"

Athenaeus, Author

"Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits"

Ninette de Valois, Dancer

"Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay"

Aishwarya Rai, Actress

"We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!"

Mary-Kate Olsen, Actress

"I feel good, I feel good. Our training staff, they're the best"

Mark Sanchez, Athlete

"As competitive as I am, I want to get the best of a play and make sure to use it's full potential even when things break down. But sometimes you need to just say 'uncle' and let it go and avoid a hit"

Mark Sanchez, Athlete

"I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned"

Wally Lamb, Author

"We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible"

Valerie Jarrett, Lawyer

"When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late"

Jonathan Carroll, Author

"I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do"

Jonathan Carroll, Author

"Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!"

John Pearson, Theologian

"A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them"

Ray Stannard Baker, Journalist

"So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy"

Richard Marx, Musician

"Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

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