One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
‐‐ Kate Klise
One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.
‐‐ Carrie Ann Inaba
One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
‐‐ John Naisbitt
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
‐‐ George Saintsbury
One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.
‐‐ Sean Hannity
One of the best moments I've ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again.
‐‐ Ray Nagin
One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other Houses with the Bones of Our Own.' Maybe not the most uplifting audience sing-along in the indie rock world, but one of the most reliably entertaining.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield
One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.
‐‐ Sam Worthington
One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.
‐‐ Simon Sinek
One of the best parts about my job is that I get to dress for red carpets and appearances, and I often forgo working with a stylist because fashion is half the fun of any event!
‐‐ Mary Lambert
One of the best parts of a woman's body is that curve, and I go a little bit higher on all of my things to show off the best part of the hourglass.
‐‐ Melissa McCarthy
One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
‐‐ Gail Z. Martin
One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.
‐‐ Liz Smith
One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember laughing uncontrollably on the set of 'That Girl' back in 1967 when we shot the episode, 'Thanksgiving Comes But Once A Year, Hopefully' during our second season.
‐‐ Marlo Thomas
One of the best parts of working at 'O' is that people just love to send us stuff.
‐‐ Gayle King
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen
One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.
‐‐ Laurie Helgoe
One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky
One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non-sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.
‐‐ Daniel H. Pink
One of the best sleight-of-hand guys I know is a plumber.
‐‐ Ricky Jay
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
‐‐ Josh Billings
One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch
One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are.
‐‐ Nora Ephron
One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.
‐‐ Terri Windling
One of the best things about good mothers is that they remind their children to take care of themselves.
‐‐ Kristin Armstrong
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
One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.
‐‐ Amanda Palmer
One of the best things about my job is that I get to meet a lot of great children's and YA authors at events all over the country. So I figured it might be fun to interview some of them and turn the interviews into short online comics.
‐‐ Steve Sheinkin
One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.
‐‐ Mark Stevens
One of the best things about the award season is that when a British film succeeds at the Oscars and BAFTAs, such as 'Slumdog Millionaire' in 2009 and 'The King's Speech' this year, the British public get right behind it with an immense sense of national pride.
‐‐ Gurinder Chadha
One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.
‐‐ Michelle Williams
One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy.
‐‐ Scarlett Johansson
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
‐‐ Charles Dudley Warner
One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.
‐‐ Mayim Bialik
One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.
‐‐ Olin Miller
One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.
‐‐ Stewart Udall
One of the best things that can happen to any cause, to any people, is to have Bill Clinton as its advocate. That is how needy and neglected causes have become global initiatives.
‐‐ Mitt Romney
One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe
One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned.
‐‐ Tim Curry
One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.
‐‐ Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
‐‐ Frank Herbert
One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
‐‐ Eric Butterworth
One of the best things to me about 'Skate' is that if you play this game from beginning to end, you just got a complete education on what skateboarding is.
‐‐ Rob Dyrdek
One of the best ways of reducing both CO2 emissions and poverty in the South would be to strengthen the existing, decentralised demographic pattern by keeping villages and small towns alive. This would allow communities to maintain social cohesion and a closer contact with the land.
‐‐ Helena Norberg-Hodge
One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik
One of the best ways to change is to act as if you are the person you want to become. When you behave as if you are a different person, you change on a very basic level - even your physiology changes. When actors and actresses perform, their body chemistry is altered by the roles they play.
‐‐ Bernie Siegel
One of the best ways to grow this economy is to put money in people's pockets.
‐‐ Thomas Perez
One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.
‐‐ Dean Rusk
One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.
‐‐ John Muir
One of the best ways to stop the failed policies coming out of Congress is to bring in the ideas and the involvement of the American people, which the America Speaking Out project is designed to do.
‐‐ Peter Roskam