Best Quotes

"The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me"

Glenn Close, Actress

"If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television"

Jamie Farr, Actor

"I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing"

Harry Mathews, Author

"So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it"

Haniel Long, Author

"Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get"

Juliet Mills, Actor

"It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people"

John Sununu, Politician

"What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others"

Carlos Fuentes, Novelist

"My best friend and I love to make fish faces"

Beverley Mitchell, Actress

"There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it"

Garry Marshall, Actor

"No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it"

Frank Stella, Artist

"I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall"

Frank Stella, Artist

"The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward"

John Knowles, Novelist

"Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights"

George B. McClellan, Soldier

"Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best"

Joseph Cook, Politician

"My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could"

Dorothy Hamill, Athlete

"As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived"

Connie Mack, Businessman

"Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best"

Fred W. Friendly, Producer

"Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half"

Francois Fenelon, Clergyman

"It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time"

William Billings, Composer

"I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error"

David Arquette, Actor

"You know I used to sit there and I'd go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free time I just kind of lay back and relax because this atmosphere is so busy and stressful, so anytime I can sleep, you'd best believe I'm sleepin'"

Scotty McCreery, Musician

"Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide"

Naveen Jain, Businessman

"I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck"

Ron Perlman, Actor

"Apple has great marketing, among the best PR and marketing in the world"

Ron Johnson, Politician

"And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable"

Eddie Albert, Actor

"Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out"

Arthur Rock, Businessman

"Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell"

Beatrice Potter Webb

"On-screen relationships are the best because you don't have to worry about saying the wrong things. And if the guy's got a girlfriend, or I'm not attracted to him, it's even better. It's just my character kissing his character"

Alicia Witt, Actress

"Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got"

Al Kaline, Athlete

"If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges"

Pat Riley, Coach

"Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child"

Zoltan Kodaly, Composer

"I'm just trying to play my best and have fun"

Miguel Cabrera, Athlete

"Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

"I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project"

William Kempe, Actor

"A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport"

Yoshiro Mori

"Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being"

Marc Forne Molne, Politician

"I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd"

Malcolm Boyd, Clergyman

"We're trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year"

Tom Hicks, Businessman

"I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people"

Timothy Bottoms, Actor

"If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes"

Thomas Gray, Poet

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