Best Quotes

"This is the best biography by me I have ever read"

"Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him"

Conan O'Brien, Entertainer

"The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person"

Sergei Bubka, Athlete

"Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent"

William Gilmore Simms, Novelist

"But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can"

Pete Townshend, Musician

"There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them"

Michael Moore, Activist

"We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me"

Matthew Modine, Actor

"We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there"

Wilson Greatbatch, Inventor

"When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

"In life I've learned one thing; if you want to be good you have to connect with the best people. So I got very close to the high-stakes players here. I get to watch them and play with them a little bit"

Guy Laliberte, Businessman

"I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy"

Sandra Cisneros, Author

"Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth"

Leslie Charteris, Writer

"I did my best, and God did the rest"

Hattie McDaniel, Actress

"History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red"

Jo Ann Emerson, Politician

"It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake"

John Frusciante, Musician

"I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices"

Amy Grant, Musician

"We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed to craft the best practices to distribute throughout the country. And we had to do all of that in ten months"

DeForest Soaries, Politician

"I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there"

David Knopfler, Musician

"The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you"

Illeana Douglas, Actress

"It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands"

Greg Walden, Politician

"Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now"

Jerry Brown, Politician

"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict"

Yitzhak Rabin, Statesman

"To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

"But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"It is gorgeously shot, and Andrew believes that the old school way of making films in the best way. Meaning: you have a story, and you stick to the story. You don't change and alter the story because of people who've invested in it and what to put product in a shot"

Michael Berryman, Actor

"I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason"

Joe Shuster, Artist

"The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London"

Kyle MacLachlan, Actor

"Silence is best"

John Hewson, Politician

"Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply"

Henry Reed, Writer

"The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story"

Jim Bishop, Journalist

"To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals"

Janet Jackson, Musician

"I'm not going to pretend that I am the best thing in their life and they have to be totally loyal"

Graham Coxon, Musician

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