Best Quotes

"Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world"

Richard Lugar, Politician

"When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best"

Randy Bachman, Musician

"The money was good while it lasted. The best part was clearly that it changed my view of what's possible, as far as thinking how you can have an impact on a national level"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people"

Leslie Caron, Actress

"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible"

Les Baxter, Musician

"Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself"

Herschel Walker, Athlete

"Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge"

George Steinbrenner, Businessman

"There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they've been brought up in the computer and information age"

Gerald Griffin, Author

"I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better"

Debbie Harry, Musician

"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression"

Dodie Smith, Dramatist

"The best indication is that I still love to ski on most anything, from skating gear to heavy metal"

Paul Parker, Athlete

"And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!"

David Herbert Donald, Historian

"If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study"

Leslie Stephen, Author

"Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted"

Charles Foster Bass, Politician

"I am very proud of The Saints and I'm very glad that I've been associated with them all these years, but the next record is the best record... has to be the philosophy for any band that remains even halfway decent or vibrant, and that is kind of where my head's at"

Chris Bailey, Musician

"I'm satisfied to go in at the bottom - that's the best way to learn what things are all about"

Cesar Romero, Actor

"Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression"

Camille Pissarro, Artist

"I think people, for the most part, actually want what they think is best"

David Cross, Comedian

"Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible"

Catherine Keener, Actress

"I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room"

Bruce Beresford, Director

"For me, Company is still the best way for me to work"

Derek Bailey, Musician

"I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!"

Edie Brickell, Musician

"I'm not really sure what it was, the best moment. You always hope it's to come"

Bryan Ferry, Musician

"Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it"

Donna Leon, Author

"There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me"

Diego Maradona, Athlete

"Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"At the concert I'm going to crown the best looking man, Mr. Tampa. Bald men definitely have an edge"

Christine Lavin, Musician

"The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before"

Asa Gray, Scientist

"We need to work our level best in this legislative session to help grow Montana's economy, so that grandchildren can stay in Montana, grandchildren can visit their grandmother and grandfather by driving across town, not flying across the country"

Brian Schweitzer, Politician

"I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever"

Corin Nemec, Actor

"Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head"

Chad Smith, Musician

"I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends"

Cathy Freeman, Athlete

"Do you have any idea what it's like when you try and make home porn? My husband and I tried it. We looked like charging hippos. Best to leave it to the pros"

Aisha Tyler, Actress

"America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it"

Bill Frist, Politician

"Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience"

Burt Ward, Actor

"I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best"

Art Modell, Businessman

"I've tried to tell a story. For me, it is the best one"

Amanda Lear, Musician

"Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy"

Anita Desai, Novelist

"What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do"

Andrew Bogut, Athlete

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