Best Things Quotes - Page 20

• The best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the muscles of the torso, back, legs, arms and knees, with bones underneath.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Beauty, Memories, Exercise

  Giorgio Vasari (1907). “Vasari on technique: being the introduction to the three arts of design, architecture, sculpture and painting, prefixed to the Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects”

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• If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.30, New Riders

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• And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me

  Drew Brees

  Funny, Example, Looks

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• The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side

  John Elway

  Sports, Football, Running

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• The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a winning football team. There isn't, but there's plenty of work.

  Knute Rockne

  Football, Team, Winning

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• You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.

  Billy Wilder

  Done

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• Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.

  Manuel Rivas

  Reading, Writing, Happens

  Manuel Rivas (2010). “Books Burn Badly”, p.291, Random House

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• I’m not a prophet. I’m a destiny-changer. It’s all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you’ve got the power.

  Sun Ra

  Destiny, Prophet, Things To Do

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• Enjoy the best things in your life cuz you ain’t gonna get to live it twice.

  Mac Miller

  Cuz, Enjoy

  Song: Senior Skip Day, Album: K.I.D.S.

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• I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

  Roger Waters

  Song, Father, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows into not just their personalities but the hunger that unites and drives their obsessions. She writes elegantly, and makes you think, and most important manages to hang onto her skepticism in the midst of her own collecting quest.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for even if you do conceal it from others, your own heart will know. … Pursue the enjoyments which are of good repute; for pleasure attended by honor is the best thing in the world, but pleasure without honor is the worst.

  Isocrates

  Heart, Honor, Done

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.14, Delphi Classics

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• In the democratic way of life it is not the best things in life are free, but rather the best things in life are worth working for!

  Ruth M. Leverton

  Work, Things In Life, Way

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• Love doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it is the most common and constant truth of all, of all life, all law and order, the very thing which holds everything together, which permits everything to move along in time and be its wonderful or ordinary self.

  William Saroyan

  Love, Moving, Simple

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• But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance

  Norton Juster

  Trying, Doing You, Enthusiasm

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• Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer.

  Prince Harry

  Jobs, Hate, Army

  "Prince Harry may return to Afghanistan" by Nick Hopkins, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2012.

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• Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me, they would draw attention to my book and give me more publicity and help me sell more books. So I think that they decided that the best thing for them to do is to say nothing. Also, I think that some of my critics simply can't refute my argument - and so it's easier for them to ignore it as well, so that they're not forced to confront the logical contradiction in their own position.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Book, Thinking, Giving

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• The best thing about London is Paris.

  Diana Vreeland

  Paris, London

  "Diana Vreeland: five things you need to know about the Oscar Wilde of fashion" by Lauren Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.

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• If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself, you will not remember yourself.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Thinking, Long, Want

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• The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Friends, Children

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Courtship After Marriage: Romance Can Last a Lifetime”, p.55, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

  Charlie Munger

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Helping Others

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• There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust. But we lean forward nonetheless because, despite all risks and rational argument, we believe that the path we are choosing is right and best thing to do. We refuse to be bystanders, even if we do not know exactly where our actions will lead.

  Howard Schultz

  Wise, Believe, Bystanders

  Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon (2012). “Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul”, p.7, Rodale

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• Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Different, Firsts, Provocative

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• For me, the best thing about cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just pretend that the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again.

  Rudy Rucker

  Moon, Shopping, Two

  "What Is Cyberpunk?". www.rudyrucker.com. February, 1986.

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• The best thing that's ever happened to me is my daughter. To be a Mom is the best thing in the world. You know, that's all I really wanted to do after I had finished doing films.

  Marilyn Chambers

  Mom, Daughter, World

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