Best Quotes

"If you work with Jim Carrey, you're working with the best"

"These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time"

Patrick Macnee, Actor

"Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot"

Evander Holyfield, Athlete

"Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves"

Edward Bach, Scientist

"I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English"

John C. Hawkes, Novelist

"I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me"

Alice Munro, Writer

"I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it"

William Hogarth, Artist

"Life is best when you are in love"

Michael Moriarty, Actor

"Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate"

Ernest F. Hollings, Politician

"The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that"

John Sterling, Entertainer

"It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the best possible support for all our troops"

Pete Stark, Politician

"I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell"

Paula Danziger, Author

"I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult"

Ziyi Zhang, Actress

"If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather"

Roberto Duran, Athlete

"I had this beer brewed just for me. I think its the best I ever tasted. And I've tasted a lot. I think you'll like it too"

Billy Carter, Celebrity

"I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best"

Jason Newsted, Musician

"Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?"

Gael Garcia Bernal, Actor

"We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'"

Tim Johnson, Politician

"I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class"

Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

"I loved Rent when I first heard it, but it grew on me and so did Tick, Tick... Boom. Some songs are more interesting than others and sometimes the ones that never stood out at first end up being the best to perform"

Neil Patrick Harris, Actor

"One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray"

Tom Skerritt, Actor

"For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity"

Chad Hugo, Musician

"I am happy with what I do. I'd love to be the manager of the Atlanta Braves, but they hired somebody this week. So I'll just have to be inordinately happy with one of the best jobs on the planet"

Robert Gibbs, Public Servant

"At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time"

Ralph Allen, Politician

"I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment"

Steven Bochco, Producer

"Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that"

Steve Earle, Musician

"The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know"

Mary Stewart, Novelist

"I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could"

O. Winston Link, Photographer

"We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education"

Nigel Short, Celebrity

"I needed some stability, which is why I chose not to change from HRC for this season, which was an option that we had. Apart from being the best team in the world, I also needed some consistency"

Sete Gibernau, Athlete

"The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions"

Saul Steinberg, Artist

"I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music"

Sarah Hughes, Athlete

"We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes"

Samuel Daniel, Poet

"Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using"

Samuel Daniel, Poet

"With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!"

Robbie Williams, Musician

"Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time"

Robbie Williams, Musician

"Some of the bravest and the best men of all the world, certainly in law enforcement, have made their contributions while they were undercover"

Thomas Foran

"You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing"

Terrell Davis, Athlete

"I try to get the best performance an actor can give"

Taylor Hackford, Director

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