Best Things Quotes - Page 15

• I knew Jimi (Hendrix) and I think that the best thing you could say about Jimi was: there was a person who shouldn't use drugs.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Drug, Use

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• ... you are legally allowed to drink kid, so we figured the best thing for you is a car.

  Cole Hauser

  Kids, Car, Drug

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• The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Player, Nfl

  Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. January 30, 2011.

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• I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Children, Dad

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• The best things in life are often the ones hardest to get. Yet they are also the ones that are the easiest to find, usually right in front of your face.

  Mark Donaldson

  Wisdom, Things In Life, Faces

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• Experiencing different cultures is one of the best things a human being can do. It puts your whole world into perspective.

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Wisdom, Perspective, Different

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• We have a small, tight family. I left home at a young age and the best thing for me was to go home at Christmas-time and spend time with my family and friends. It's kind of funny, most people do turkey and all the trimmings, but we would have a big seafood festival because it's the only time of the year that we'd eat it. We never really went caroling, but once in a while we'd got out for a sleigh ride

  Jimmy Roy

  Funny Christmas, Home, Years

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• It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Reflection, Important

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.432, Princeton University Press

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• The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, Kind, Surprise

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• The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.

  Paul McCartney

  Father, Men, Wife

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• Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Mind, Earth

  "Interview with Lauren Bacall". "CNN Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 6, 2005.

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• You have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you can do if you love them is leave them alone and see that other people do too.

  Pat Derby

  Freedom, Animal, People

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• I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.

  Robert Harris

  Morning, Writing, Together

  "A little bit of politics". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• Ultimately chess is just chess - not the best thing in the world and not the worst thing in the world, but there is nothing quite like it.

  W. C. Fields

  World, Chess, Worst

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• The best thing for them to do (Ireland) is to stay at 0-0 until they score the goal.

  Martin O'Neill

  Football, Goal, Score

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• The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

  John Tukey

  Play, Statistics, Backyards

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• I bet that the best thing about being a hermaphrodite is that you always get to use the bathroom with the shortest line.

  Brad Wilkerson

  Sex, Use, Lines

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• Alan Webb is the best thing to happen in this event, but professionals and collegiates don't want to lose to high school guys. I don't want to lose to no one.

  Gabe Jennings

  Sports, School, Hockey

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• The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.

  Robert Duvall

  Success, Ideas, Naps

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• Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Next, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.334, Harvard University Press

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• Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

  Mark Twain

  Circles, Two, Stories

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.55, Chartwell

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• I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Giving, Advice

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• 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

  Boys, Practice, Experience

  Charles Dudley Warner (2005). “Being A Boy”, p.5, 1st World Publishing

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• The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

  Leonardo Sciascia

  Sides, Language, Said

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• The best thing in life aren't things.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Values, Things In Life

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