Best Quotes

"When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing"

Joni Mitchell, Musician

"I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty"

Venus Williams, Athlete

"Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes"

Tom Cochrane, Musician

"I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself"

Steve Carlton, Athlete

"We're the best team in baseball, but not by much"

Sparky Anderson, Coach

"I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot"

Ira Glass, Journalist

"I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can"

Guy Clark, Musician

"I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer"

Fred Savage, Actor

"My children deserve to have the best, and now they will"

Susan Smith, Criminal

"Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it"

Sean Penn, Actor

"My goal was to do the best job I could in governing the state of Wisconsin, in some cases making very tough decisions to have to bring our spending in line with the resources we had at the state level"

Scott McCallum, Politician

"You are part of that horrid expression, the best and the brightest. It can be a terrible burden if you let it be, but it is the great challenge of your time. And being a warrior in that challenge should be wondrous"

Paul Tsongas, Politician

"I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan"

Pat Boone, Musician

"I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine"

Marlee Matlin, Actress

"We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research"

Kenichi Fukui, Scientist

"Accidents will happen in the best regulated families"

John Dos Passos, Novelist

"I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people"

Joe Lieberman, Politician

"There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music"

Miroslav Vitous, Musician

"It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips"

Mink Stole, Actress

"Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song"

Michael Bolton, Musician

"Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business"

Leo Burnett, Businessman

"His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen"

Theodore White, Journalist

"If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best"

Oliver Kahn, Athlete

"In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best"

Robert Hall, Clergyman

"If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end"

Julius Erving, Athlete

"I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation"

Oliver Stone, Director

"To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example"

John Sladek, Author

"Actually, everything has been said in print... it's a battle of giants and it's something that Walt would say is none of your business - go right on and create the best you can"

Joe Grant, Artist

"Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist"

Jim Lehrer, Journalist

"I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be"

Tab Hunter, Actor

"Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty"

Jerry Weller, Politician

"I am the best in baseball"

Reggie Jackson, Athlete

"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather"

Luc de Clapiers, Writer

"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority"

George Bancroft, Historian

"There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows"

Frederic William Farrar, Theologian

"It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket"

Frank Woolley, Athlete

"When we were making Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, we were jamming. From that we were taking the best bits and then recording and improvising on top of those"

Tina Weymouth, Musician

"I want to grow into the best person I can be"

Stephen Martin, Politician

"In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county"

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Lawyer

"Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from"

Ashlee Simpson, Musician

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