All The Best Quotes - Page 5

• All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.

  Asher Brown Durand

  Artist, Color, Achievement

  Linda S. Ferber, Asher Brown Durand (2007). “Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape”, D Giles Ltd

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• If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Waiting, Too Late, Numb

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• When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Children, Sibling, School

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• How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.

  Russell Baker

  Education, Children, Home

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• I scowled defensively. "My conversations don't usually include the subject of erections." "Too bad," he said. "All the best conversations do.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Conversation, Said, Subjects

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.98, St. Martin's Press

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• The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.

  Thomas More

  Men, Water, Parent

  Sir Thomas More (2009). “Utopia: On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia”, p.93, The Floating Press

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• Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

  Seth Godin

  Drawing, Boards, Best Work

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• I'm sure that there must have been times when you have read books or watched films and found yourself secretly wishing for the villain to win. Why? Isn't that against the rules by which our society lives? Why should you feel this way? It's simple, really; the villain is the true hero of these tales, not the well-intentioned moron who somehow foils their diabolical scheme. The villain get's all the best lines, has the best costumes, has unlimited power and wealth- why on earth would anyone not want to be the villain?

  Mark Walden

  Book, Hero, Winning

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• A parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other half was dead. He felt his sympathy leap toward Brother Zachariah, as he imagined himself without Alec, with only that faded rune to remind him where once he had been bonded to someone who knew all the best and worst parts of his soul.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Soul, Half

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Heavenly Fire”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

  Quintilian

  Teacher, Learning, Pride

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• Who in the world remembers who won the 1975 Westchester Classic or the 1978 Western Open? Basically, the majors are the only comparison over time . . . played on the same courses for generations. All the best players are always there.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Player, Generations

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• All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

  A. C. Benson

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Reality, Agreement, Wild Imagination

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• I don't care how much money he (Frank Viola) makes. He can have my locker, I'll take him to all the best restaurants and show him New York. He can even have my wife, but he can't have my number, no way.

  Dwight Gooden

  New York, Numbers, Wife

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• Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.

  Amy Waldman

  Garden, Eden, Paradise

  "The Submission". Book by Amy Waldman, August 16, 2011.

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• I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hands, Design, Machines

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• This is my philosophy on all life, not just when it comes to love. All the best things are terrifying, but that's why they're the best things. Nothing worth having comes easy. You have to be afraid to want it, afraid to lose it, afraid to try. If you feel that, then you know you're on to a winner.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Philosophy, Romantic Love, Trying

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• I know I will have to come to forgiveness and acceptance of what has happened for me to go on and be happy in the future. And I know I will get there eventually. I wish him all the best in the future, as a person and as an athlete ... I feel privileged to have witnessed a part of his golfing career.

  Elin Nordegren

  Athlete, Divorce, Acceptance

  "Elin Nordegren Breaks Silence: The Word 'Betrayal' Isn't Strong Enough", www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2010.

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• My skills weren't that I knew how to design a floppy disk, I knew how to design a printer interface, I knew how to design a modem interface; it was that, when the time came and I had to get one done, I would design my own, fresh, without knowing how other people do it. That was another thing that made me very good. All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money, and (b) not having done it before, ever. Every single thing that we came out with that was really great, I'd never once done that thing in my life.

  Jessica Livingston

  Skills, Apples, Knowing

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• Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans are capable of, but only if we take the time to think about what we're eating.

  Alice Waters

  Thinking, Slow Food, Care

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• The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so.

  Ernest Poole

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.

  Brian Eno

  Minutes, Written, Ten

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• I take all the best parts of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and combine them into a whole new service called … YouTwit-face.

  Mark Frost

  Faces, Twitter And Facebook, Youtube

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• All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Past, Rejected, Best Things

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2016

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• So impressed with John Mitchell. His response to this attack has been courageous and brilliant! I wish him and the Lions all the best!

  Luke Watson

  Wish, Lions, Brilliant

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