Best Quotes

"If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time"

"You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works"

Kurt Loder, Journalist

"It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living"

Lamar Alexander, Politician

"While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best"

Tom Allen, Politician

"I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world"

Big Pun, Musician

"Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation"

Joe Barton, Politician

"I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come"

Pat Buckley, Clergyman

"I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds"

Martha Smith, Actress

"Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment"

Grenville Kleiser, Author

"The people at home don't care what your problems are. They just know that you're doing that show and you're supposed to do the best you can do. It's not a 9-5 type of job. I've considered myself very lucky to do that kind of work"

Wink Martindale, Entertainer

"It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work"

Mary McDonnell, Actress

"I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be"

Debby Boone, Actress

"The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a dam' good head waiter"

Nubar Gulbenkian, Poet

"I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do"

George Gaylord Simpson, Scientist

"Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"I think Social Security should be bipartisan and it should transcend the next election, and you should get the best ideas of the Democrats and of the Republicans, and move forward with the best"

Jack Kingston, Politician

"I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow"

Magnus Magnusson, Journalist

"As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given"

Mary Lou Retton, Athlete

"As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide"

Martin van Creveld, Historian

"It is important to experiment and endlessly seek after creating the best possible flavors when preparing foods. That means not being afraid to experiment with various ingredients"

Rocco DiSpirito, Celebrity

"I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good"

Meg White, Musician

"If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater"

Pam Brown, Poet

"God is best known in not knowing him"

Saint Aurelius Augustine

"Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason"

Marie de France, Poet

"He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can"

Leslie Charteris, Writer

"Well, it's a day-to-day thing. I don't feel comfortable in my body today at all. Any woman will tell you she has her good and bad days and today I did not feel like I looked my best or felt radiant inside or outside"

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Model

"Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best"

Rex Stout, Writer

"I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well"

Tim Scott, Politician

"A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties"

Harriet Martineau, Writer

"TV is the best babysitter"

John Goodman, Actor

"There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best"

Graham Coxon, Musician

"I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever"

Anita Loos, Writer

"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens"

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

"Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect"

Bruno Bettelheim, Writer

"Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift"

Steve Prefontaine, Athlete

"It is best to live however one can be"

Sophocles, Author

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