Best Quotes

"There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do"

Soichiro Honda, Businessman

"I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids"

Selena Gomez, Actress

"Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I"

Paul Guilfoyle, Actor

"I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit"

Nigel Mansell, Athlete

"I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best"

Maria Menounos, Actress

"Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best"

Lindsey Buckingham, Musician

"But what I want to assure and reassure the public is we are concerned about your safety, your security, and your privacy. Let's work together in partnership to ensure that we can have the best way forward"

John Pistole, Public Servant

"When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly"

John O'Toole, Politician

"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real"

James Rouse, Businessman

"The best reduction, the most final reduction, is to destroy the warheads"

Jack Reed, Politician

"Yup, the toilet is my best friend before a show"

Eric Carr, Musician

"In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them"

Delia Smith, Celebrity

"I got to meet some of the best people I've ever met, and we all grew as people and as entertainers"

Carrie Underwood, Musician

"Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best"

Carla Bley, Musician

"I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener"

Carla Bley, Musician

"Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively"

Bubba Sparxxx, Musician

"Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do"

Bruce Jenner, Athlete

"It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people"

Amy Poehler, Comedian

"There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"My life was falling apart and then to come out and play and have my best ever - 40 wickets, 250 runs... But the only reason I could do that was because of the way I thought and I think I'm pretty strong mentally. I think I am anyway, pretty strong to get over whatever it is"

Shane Warne, Athlete

"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do"

Sean William Scott, Actor

"I just thought it could make a really cool movie. It's not that it's just a buddy comedy but it's all about two guys hating each other and towards the end they're good friends. I liked that these two guys were best friends from the very beginning, and they're crazy"

Sean William Scott, Actor

"My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians"

Walter Becker, Musician

"When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality"

Julie Taymor, Director

"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film"

Joshua Leonard, Actor

"The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say"

Tim McGraw, Musician

"Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music"

Shania Twain, Musician

"I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life"

Shania Twain, Musician

"Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not"

Scott Brown, Politician

"I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little"

Maurice Ravel, Composer

"So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock"

Kevin Mitnick, Celebrity

"We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible"

John Drinkwater, Poet

"Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened"

Jimmy Piersall, Athlete

"Theatre sports is the best improv training period"

Wayne Brady, Comedian

"When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to"

Tom Cruise, Actor

"David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology"

Terry Southern, Writer

"But we did the best we could and in the end some of us had to get day jobs and start fresh"

Steve Brown, Musician

"It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all"

James Stewart, Actor

"I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best"

Gabrielle Reece, Athlete

"The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time"

Frank Miller, Artist

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