Best Quotes

"Right now, it's very difficult to single out one fighter, pound-for-pound, who is the best. Right now, it's very complex. Miguel Cotto, Mayweather and Zab Judah's a good fighter as well"

Roberto Duran, Athlete

"Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town"

Pete Hamill, Journalist

"So I would say Reagan was the best, and certainly Clinton the worst"

Pat Boone, Musician

"The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. I can't wait to have more"

Marlee Matlin, Actress

"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"Moveon is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a forum in which people can post comments and those comments can be rated. We get a sense of what people feel most passionately about"

Joan Blades, Businessman

"The three of us acting was truly one of the best experiences I've ever had. I really look forward to the days when all three of us shoot together, because the sparks really fly"

Jeanne Tripplehorn, Actress

"I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay"

Jason Bateman, Actor

"I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans"

Robbie Coltrane, Actor

"Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn't something where they chose a bunch of songs that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the packaging. It's a beautiful tribute"

Rita Coolidge, Musician

"We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour"

Philip Knight, Businessman

"I feel my best when I'm happy"

Winona Ryder, Actress

"See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work"

Robbie Coltrane, Actor

"Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America"

Theodore White, Journalist

"Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind"

Scott Nearing, Activist

"You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks"

Richard Grant, Author

"At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good"

Walter Mosley, Novelist

"The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change"

John Monks, Leader

"Be your best. Do your best"

L. M. Heroux, Writer

"The evidence does not support abstinence-only interventions as the best way to keep young people from unintended pregnancy"

Jonathan Klein, Businessman

"Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best"

Maude Adams, Actress

"I know right a way there's a person that's very insecure; that he's trying to out do me. And, ah, like I was saying before, if you give one-hundred percent of your best, and you may have fault, but there is nothing you can do, because you gave one-hundred percent"

Lou Ferrigno, Actor

"Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment"

Howard Baker, Statesman

"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it"

William Temple

"Well, one of the best things is workin' with Muddy"

Johnny Winter, Musician

"I like playin' for an audience the best, though, I think"

Johnny Winter, Musician

"Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made"

Joseph J. Ellis, Writer

"I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure"

Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher

"These issues are so important. I just felt the best thing to do right now is contribute and go forward"

Bill Luther, Politician

"So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty"

James Wolfensohn, Businessman

"This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness"

Isaac Mayer Wise, Clergyman

"When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion"

George Etherege, Dramatist

"I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given"

Anthony Hamilton

"I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files"

Wen Ho Lee, Scientist

"Unfortunately, Climate Science has become Political Science. It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomena which is statistically questionable at best"

Robert H. Austin, Scientist

"America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken"

Mike Ferguson, Politician

"For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know"

Kate Seredy, Writer

"When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person"

James McBride, Writer

"When I made it, I still didn't wave the flag and say, Yeah go Asian people. I do want people to know that about me, but I always felt like at least musically, let me just do what I do and be the best at it. Which is what I'm doing right now"

Chad Hugo, Musician

"Snowboarding! I love it! Some of the best places to snowboard are Telluride and Park Cities, Utah"

Bridget Hall, Model

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