Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Bangalter

Usually, a band 20 years into its existence doesn't put out its best records.

Tommy Lee

The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck.

Tom Shales

Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic.

Tom Seaver

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

Thomas Mallon

I actually think that 'Bandbox,' by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.

Thomas E. Mann

Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue collar, who would fight anybody. You know, he didn't tell you he was the best fighter pound for pound.

Edward Abbey

I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.

The only negative thing about the DNA problem is we really eliminated all of our best suspects.

The Prime Minister received the most appropriate treatment for the medical condition in which he found himself. He was treated by the best experts at Hadassah and we made every effort to consult with experts from other places.

The Prime Minister conveyed the best wishes of the people of India to the people of Nepal.

The primary thing we're doing here is taking financial donations. That's the best way to help out.

to play the spy game better than anybody's ever played it before. He wants to be the best spy ever.

Mark Driscoll

To play the game in the state's best venue is exciting. Last time we were here, we packed it out, despite the lightning (which caused a 28-minute delay).

Joey Cheek

What I do is great fun. But it's honestly a pretty ridiculous thing. I mean I skate around on ice in tights, right? ... I always felt like if I ever did something big like this I wanted to be prepared to give something back ... The best way to thank someone is by helping someone else.

Maria Sharapova

What I do best is compete. This is just something I do for fun.

Maurice Sendak

What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.

What I am opposed to is the perpetuation of immersion courses. We sometimes can undersell these qualified students. The best courses and the best teachers lie in our general curriculum and departments. The ELL is not something we permanently want to maintain students in.

We were criticized in the early days for trying to pack too much into the show, and I think we quickly realized that the show was at its best when we let it breathe a little bit.

O. Henry

We were consistently told - even on the last day - that it was going to take five years to sign Johnny. We weren't willing to do that. Our best offer was $40 million over four years.

Jim Davidson

We were coming to a new community, and we understood we needed someone to represent our best interests and who knew the community.

We were chasing a rather big total (3rd ODI) and we thought the best way to get the runs was to be positive, not reckless but to play a few shots, set the bowlers off and hopefully things would be better for us.

We were calling pitches to pitch around Ovens, but the pitchers weren't pitching it. It's that simple. We weren't calling for fastballs down the middle with base-runners on with the best hitter on their team standing there. They couldn't hit spots, and if you couldn't hit spots, he'll hit the ball.

Peter Thiel

Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.

Brad Wilkerson

We need to not do those types of things. When you've got your best hitter at the plate, and you're struggling to score some runs, we need him swinging the bat.

We need to move forward and try to do the best we can to forget the mistakes that were made. They were not made deliberately.

We need to make Chris Hernandez take tough shots and do the best we can to slow him up.

We need to look very hard at that policy to see if it is in everyone's best interest to do something different. If we're going to change the policy, we need to get the community involved.

Suzanne Somers

When you choose high-quality delicious foods, your body will reward you with a trim figure and a longer, healthier life. After all, what you put in your body is the best recipe for staying sexy forever.

When you can't get your best shooter off, you're in trouble.

James McAvoy

When you can see kids smiling, that's one of the best things. That's why I did 'Narnia.'

When we see them, it's usually no conversation at all. They go do their thing and we do our thing. That's probably the best thing. You don't want any kind of confrontation or anything going on.

Dave Wannstedt

When we run our tosses and our powers and our heavy run game, he's got to block somebody. He needs it. In the long run, it'll be the best thing that's happened to him.