All Quotes

The best books are the ones that ask the most questions.
‐‐ Jonathan Safran Foer

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
‐‐ George Orwell

The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.
‐‐ Isobelle Carmody

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
‐‐ Judy Blume

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.
‐‐ Robert Morgan

The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it.
‐‐ Julia Glass

The best bounce rapper ain't gonna be able to compete with Jay-Z, not on a major scale.
‐‐ Mystikal

The best boxers don't always qualify for the Olympics. You can easily have a bad day, but please God, that won't happen to me.
‐‐ Katie Taylor

The best businesses that all of us have in the entertainment business are cable content channels, which have a dual revenue stream.
‐‐ Steve Burke

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
‐‐ Dudley Moore

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.
‐‐ Polly Toynbee

The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'
‐‐ Katharine Whitehorn

The best cartoons have no words at all - just the image pops out.
‐‐ Jeff MacNelly

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
‐‐ Adam Savage

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
‐‐ Michael Porter

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

The best characters in books are always the difficult ones, and why would you want to fall in love with someone difficult? The ones I'd fall in love with are the ones I'd definitely keep out of a book.
‐‐ Patrick Ness

The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.
‐‐ George Blagden

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.
‐‐ Olivia Williams

The best cinema is about ethics.
‐‐ Alexander Payne

The best climber in the world is the one that has the most fun.
‐‐ Alex Lowe

The best climber is the one who has the most fun.
‐‐ Alex Lowe

The best clubs in the world are always the clubs where you have a variety of people. Like, you have the crazy people, you have the nicely dressed people, you have the office people, you have the regular guys - that makes it fun.
‐‐ Tiesto

The best comedians and the best rappers can make you laugh and can make you cry... I believe I've been blessed with that gift to make you do just that.
‐‐ Jay Pharoah

The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.
‐‐ Denis Leary

The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.
‐‐ Chevy Chase

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.
‐‐ Ray Romano

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.
‐‐ Ian Hislop

The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?
‐‐ Pauly Shore

The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

The best comics enlist you to take accountability for who you are, whether you like it or not.
‐‐ Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

The best companies are the ones that offer their products for free.
‐‐ Danny Rimer

The best companies in the world have all had predecessors. 'YouTube' was a dating site. You always have to evolve into something else.
‐‐ Kevin Systrom

The best companies with the strongest credit ratings borrow like the United States: on a non-prioritized basis. This means that in the event of a default, all of their debts are of equal priority because lenders and creditors believe default is highly unlikely. And they spend considerable effort maintaining this status.
‐‐ John Delaney

The best complement I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.
‐‐ J. K. Simmons

The best compliment came from Knopf's Sonny Mehta. We were at lunch in New York with my editor, Gary Fisketjon, it was my first time meeting Sonny, and after ordering our food, he turned to me and said, 'Adam, I read 'Mr. Peanut' in two days; every page surprised me, and that, I can assure you, doesn't happen often.'
‐‐ Adam Ross

The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.
‐‐ Tom T. Hall

The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.'
‐‐ Henry Rollins

The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.'
‐‐ Lionel Richie

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
‐‐ Alistair Cooke

The best compliment we ever got about the show was from a Korean veteran who was unable to talk about his war experience with his wife until 'M*A*S*H.' While watching the show, he was able to lean over to his wife and say, 'See, honey, that's the way it was.'
‐‐ Gary Burghoff

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.
‐‐ Margaret Smith

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
‐‐ Peter Weir

The best counsel for us to give young people is that they can arrive back to Heavenly Father only as they are guided and corrected by the Spirit of God. So if we are wise, we will encourage, praise, and exemplify everything which invites the companionship of the Holy Ghost.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.
‐‐ Alafair Burke

The best crime stories are always about the crime and its consequences - you know, 'Crime And Punishment' is the classic. Where you have the crime, and its consequences are the story, but considering the crime and the consequences makes you think about the society in which the crime takes place, if you see what I mean.
‐‐ Paul Greengrass

The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might think. Instead, they treat the reader as an intelligent friend, and describe the book as honestly, and as entertainingly, as possible.
‐‐ Craig Brown

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's.
‐‐ Goodman Ace

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.
‐‐ Jeff Bezos