Best Quotes

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.

No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.

Snowboarding! I love it! Some of the best places to snowboard are Telluride and Park Cities, Utah.

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.

Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possible.

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.

When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

I make some of my best recipes with a simple homemade stock. Keep shrimp shells stored in a plastic bag in the freezer. When you have almost a gallon-bag full, you can make a stock in 30 minutes that you can use in soups and sauces. You can then freeze the stock in ice-cube trays.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

I use very few muscles at the best of times.

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

I've decided to listen to my doctors and get the procedure I need on my knee. USA Basketball said I had to do what was best for me. They want me to be obviously as healthy as possible so I can continue to play this game at a high level.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it.