Best Quotes

"I think that with a lot of hard work and dedication, I feel that I could be the best in the world. I'm still only 35 years old... I have a fresh start physically and mentally, and I feel that I can achieve my goal to be the best again"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"I've had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit"

Moliere, Playwright

"The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general"

Jason Schwartzman, Actor

"Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire"

Richard Krajicek, Athlete

"Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end"

John Webster, Playwright

"I may not have been the best Yankee to put on the pinstripes, but I am the proudest"

Billy Martin, Athlete

"From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny"

Steve Buyer, Politician

"The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it"

Dudley Moore, Celebrity

"I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best"

Frida Kahlo, Painter

"Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar"

Jerome K. Jerome, Author

"We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter"

Bille August, Director

"My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions"

George Nethercutt, Politician

"It pays to get drunk with the best people"

Joe E. Lewis, Comedian

"And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball"

Jim Evans, Athlete

"Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"Seek home for rest, for home is best"

Thomas Tusser, Poet

"The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it"

Bill Klem, Athlete

"It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know until you throw it out there if it's gonna take. And that is a really scary and vulnerable place to be, so having those songs be embraced is the best feeling in the world. That's been our dream our whole lives"

Hillary Scott, Musician

"A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories"

Stefan Banach, Mathematician

"Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had"

Raymond E. Feist, Author

"Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application"

William Weld, Politician

"I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else"

Robert Quine, Musician

"I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength"

Woody Harrelson, Actor

"In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical"

Woody Harrelson, Actor

"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy"

Hesiod, Poet

"The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos"

Bill Scott, Actor

"I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree"

Daniel J. Evans, Politician

"This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment"

William Glasser, Psychologist

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