Best Quotes

"I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without"

Edward Weston, Photographer

"No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions"

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, Clergyman

"I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones"

Ed O'Neill, Actor

"The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects"

James Lind, Scientist

"What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better"

Campbell Scott, Actor

"A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing"

Donna Mills, Actress

"Hopefully, if not it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime"

Bob Lilly, Athlete

"There's no way for me to know, but my best guess, as it must be for everyone, is that other people are pretty much like me"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can"

Jerry Only, Musician

"I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course"

Jeremy London, Actor

"Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries"

Hugh Mackay

"Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best"

Marilu Henner, Actress

"It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs"

Marilu Henner, Actress

"The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"I've lived my life in a way that I feel would be an example to young women and I've always given my best in everything I've tried"

Cindy Margolis, Model

"I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test"

Ian Botham, Athlete

"There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going"

Cheryl Ladd, Actress

"The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent"

George Catlin, Artist

"Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London"

Cynthia Payne, Celebrity

"If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it"

Denzel Washington, Actor

"What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life"

Debi Thomas, Athlete

"It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all"

Cornel West, Educator

"The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart"

Dan Gable, Athlete

"David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends"

Amy Sedaris, Actress

"Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm"

David Duchovny, Actor

"I was a goth girl in high school. Perhaps the powdered white face and the black lipstick were not the most attractive. I felt fabulous at the time but looking back, uh, probably not the best idea"

Christina Hendricks, Actress

"Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it"

Florence King, Writer

"I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics"

Bob Lilly, Athlete

"I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement"

Charles Schwab, Businessman

"I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world.They made me America's Number one Pin Up"

Cindy Margolis, Model

"If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing"

Charles Krauthammer, Journalist

"There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got"

Billy Corgan, Musician

"I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability"

Betty Cuthbert, Athlete

"For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

"They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese"

Christian Lacroix, Designer

"We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew members' best interests in mind because they may be serving a union of one of our competitors. They are trying to equalize us and take away our competitive advantage"

David Neeleman, Businessman

"My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire"

Andy Garcia, Actor

"There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

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