Best Quotes

"The best songs come from a place of honesty and truth"

"Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot"

Roger Corman, Producer

"You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle"

James Cagney, Actor

"In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies"

Jim Costa, Politician

"The best artists know what to leave out"

Charles de Lint, Writer

"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape"

A. C. Benson, Author

"I believe the best persona to be onstage is the one that comes naturally"

Billy Sheehan, Musician

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right"

Lord Hailsham, Politician

"The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players"

Blaine Lee, Author

"In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry"

Roger Staubach, Athlete

"We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets"

Orville Redenbacher, Businessman

"Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them"

Ramman Kenoun

"When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking"

Rick Moranis, Actor

"The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use"

Nicholas Culpeper, Scientist

"But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control"

Red Adair, Celebrity

"I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world"

Tony Bennett, Musician

"Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age"

Pope John XXIII, Clergyman

"I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"I hardly ever go to parties. If I really have to, I'll go, but I'm not the most open person, which is sometimes not the best quality"

Eva Green, Actress

"The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question"

Stephen Jay Gould, Scientist

"Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families"

Kim Campbell, Statesman

"We are all failures at least, all the best of us are"

J. M. Barrie, Novelist

"Those who know the least obey the best"

George Farquhar, Dramatist

"But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part"

John Deacon, Musician

"When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Musician

"Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically"

Martin Fry, Musician

"The best things carried to excess are wrong"

Charles Churchill, Poet

"I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people"

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Artist

"Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens"

Sheldon Jackson, Politician

"Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision"

John Money, Psychologist

"First be best, then be first"

Grant Tinker, Musician

"What is best and most necessary usually happens"

Knute Nelson, Politician

"He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?"

Robert Adamson, Philosopher

"I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers"

Michael Palin, Comedian

"Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence"

Bernadette Devlin, Politician

"The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman"

Alan Perlis, Scientist

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