Best Quotes

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

I don't want to have a friend unless I can call them one of my best friends.

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.

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.

Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.

The best university is the university of life.

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world.

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best.

Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn't something where they chose a bunch of songs that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the packaging. It's a beautiful tribute.

The new co-operation government will do the best it can to address the country's problems, and I believe that with the co-operation of all - and the new government stresses this - and the unity of all, we will achieve that.

I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.

I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.

The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.

The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best.