Best Quotes

Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?

~ Jean-Claude Van Damme

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

~ Kyra Sedgwick

I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.

~ Matthew Lillard

The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.

~ Peter Weller

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

~ George Borrow

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

~ R. Lee Ermey

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

~ Bruce Springsteen

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

~ Henry Louis Gates

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.

~ Henry Louis Gates

For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema.

~ Karan Johar

The concept of patriotism is not incompatible with that of humanity; on the contrary, let me state emphatically that he who best serves pacifism serves patriotism best. The nation is and can be no more than the vital basic unit of any international league.

~ Leon Bourgeois

I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible.

~ Sandrine Bonnaire

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

~ Michelangelo

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

~ John Muir

One of the best things about growing up in New Zealand is that if you are prepared to work hard and have faith in yourself, truly anything is possible.

~ Peter Jackson

Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

~ Gene Robinson

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about.

~ Joel Osteen

My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor and friend. They taught me the basic principle that guides most all that I do: faith, focus, finish.

~ Larry Fitzgerald

I've learned through my own relationship with God that He's not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

~ Joyce Meyer

The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.

~ Mike Huckabee

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

~ Ivan Chermayeff

I don't like the collusion between high fashion design and high street. You have to know where you stand. I belong to luxury fashion. That's what I've always felt and embraced. I like the best quality, the best fabrics and the most creative field in fashion. I will stay consistent. I belong to this world.

~ Hedi Slimane

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

~ Christian Lacroix

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

~ Richard Rogers

Often, we think that things are the way they are because of intelligent design - because somebody super-smart, or some group of academics, came up with the best system ever to do XYZ. Actually, things are often the way they are because of an accident of history.

~ Leila Janah

As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.

~ Tom Ford

First, as I've always said, it all starts with product, which means having the right assortment, styles, and fits. Second is price, where we strive to offer the best quality, style, and design at a fair value. This is critically important, given the highly promotional environment we are operating in. And third, traffic.

~ Mickey Drexler

The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.

~ Thom Mayne

Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians.

~ Lapo Elkann

You can get the best locksmith in the world to design the best lock he can design, is it pick proof? No, it's not: it can be very hard to pick, but it is pickable. Because you can get, say, the next 10 best locksmiths, and give them unlimited money and time, they will figure out a way to pick it.

~ Mikko Hypponen

Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.

~ John Sculley

One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

~ Ralph Bakshi

Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.

~ Jon Heder

I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life.

~ Henry Allingham

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

~ Hugh Jackman

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

My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.

~ Maeve Binchy

I was born to be married. I just feel comfortable there. I love the idea of being partnered for ever. I love my girlfriend, we've been best friends since I was 18. There's not a thing we haven't been through except for marriage... We've had talks about what we would name our kids since we were in our 20s.

~ Beth Ditto

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

~ Ann Bancroft

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

~ D. B. Sweeney