Best Quotes
“If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.”
-- Pam Brown
“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
“I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.”
-- Alfred Hitchcock
“Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.”
-- Mike Ditka
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
-- e. e. cummings
“People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.”
-- Margaret Cho
“In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.”
-- Barack Obama
“What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.”
-- Benjamin Franklin Fairless
“There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.”
-- Doris Lessing
“Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
-- Henry Van Dyke
“Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers).”
-- Jerry Saltz