“Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.”
– Rick Perry
“I get a lot of the ideas when I’m resting – either when I’m meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That’s where I get my best ideas, maybe because I’m balancing my body.”
– Katy Perry
“I’ve found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.”
– Brandon Routh
“One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you’ve become harmless.”
– Liz Smith
“One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy.”
– Scarlett Johansson
“Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.”
– Larry Bird
“I’m either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.”
– Katy Perry
“Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.”
– Zack Wamp
“The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.”
– John F. Kerry
“The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don’t wait until you’re on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.”
– Morrie Schwartz
“What I love best in life is new starts.”
– Karl Lagerfeld
“The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.”
– Larry Bird
“The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.”
– Diablo Cody
“I don’t think there’s anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.”
– Chris Christie
“The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.”
– James Monroe
“If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire ‘best director’ category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make.”
– Diablo Cody
“The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other’s bed, where the rival perfects the lover’s imperfections.”
– Djuna Barnes
“I don’t think I ever got the hang of the writers’ room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to – if I did something again, I think I’d want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.”
– Diablo Cody
“Speaking of Twitter, I don’t even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!”
– Diablo Cody
“Example is the best precept.”
– Aesop
“I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.”
– Jimmy Carter
“Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful.”
– Rashida Jones
“I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.”
– Manny Pacquiao
“Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you’re willing to stand up within the group and say, ‘It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,’ or ‘It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,’ it’s crucial to say that.”
– Henry Louis Gates
“Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.”
– Scott Nearing
“I wanna change the game in way where I’m not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I’ve been given.”
– Anthony Hamilton
“I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, ‘Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?’ and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.”
– Daniel Radcliffe
“For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.”
– Fiona Apple
“Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.”
– Tom Felton
“Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.”
– Billy Sunday