Best Quotes

I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work.

~ James Wong Howe

Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't work, because as a chef you have your own vision of what your food is, but you can't always explain it. Or you can't pick recipes that best illustrate who and where you are and what you're doing. And if the recipes don't work, you don't have a book.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

~ Bhumibol Adulyadej

I believe in hard work, not luck factor. The best efforts will reap the best fruits. Nobody can take all the credit. We don't even talk about the efforts of the director, the writers, other technicians, etc. They all together take a film to another level.

~ Rakul Preet Singh

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

~ Sting

Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job you could have as a test pilot was being an astronaut, so I volunteered.

~ Charles Duke

I remember I wanted to be an athlete. I wanted to be in the NFL or NBA or something, and I don't think I dreamed of being a benchwarmer. I'm sure I wanted to be the best. But I didn't really ever think I was going to be a famous musician.

~ Mike Posner

The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them.

~ Lynn Coady

I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be.

~ Matthew Perry

In 'A Few Best Men,' I play a lesbian character. I played the lesbian sister of the bride who ends up kissing a dude at the end, but she was, like, a full-on lesbian in that. And I beat out famous Australian lesbians for the role.

~ Rebel Wilson

I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.

~ Caitlin Moran

Dad was always that way: who's the candidate that's best for this country? We can debate theology later - that was his famous line. I kind of feel like that's in my DNA.

~ Jerry Falwell

The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.

~ Adam Levine

The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

~ William Scott

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

~ Anne Frank

If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.

~ Clare Balding

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

~ Wayne Dyer

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

~ Molière

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.

~ Henry Moore

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

~ Robert Baden-Powell

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.

~ P. T. Barnum

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

~ Bernard Meltzer

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

~ Elvis Presley

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

~ George Macdonald

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses.

~ William Godwin

Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.

~ Julian Baggini

Land really is the best art.

~ Andy Warhol

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

~ Samuel Smiles

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

~ Steve Jobs

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

~ Thomas Huxley

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

~ Bill Nye

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

~ Mark Russell

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

~ Rupert Sheldrake

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

~ Bianca Jagger

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

~ Tom Felton