Best Quotes

“All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.”

-- Elvis Presley

“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”

-- John Wooden

“Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.”

-- Homer

“The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.”

-- Winston Churchill

“All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.”

-- Tiger Woods

“No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.”

-- John Wooden

“About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.”

-- Kurt Vonnegut

“Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.”

-- Benjamin Franklin

“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”

-- Robert Louis Stevenson