Best Things Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• It's hard being a girl. There are a lot of body image issues that come up and I think the best thing we can do for our kids is lead by example.

  Cheryl Hines

  Inspiring, Girl, Kids

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• I think I have to work to write a happy song. I write them carefully; they're simple and they're about when it's fun to walk down the street. You know? Because that's the best thing about when you're happy. It's just one little thing that makes you happy, and you're making friends. The kind of thing I can do is capture this moment.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Song, Fun, Writing

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• Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best thing that could have happened because he just wouldn't settle for less. It had to be right, and it had to be good.

  Dean Dillon

  Writing, Influence, Settling

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• I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.

  Charlie Daniels

  Music, Writing, Guitar

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• The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button.

  Rick Reilly

  Funny Marriage, Buttons, Tvs

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• One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.

  M. M. Musselman

  Love, Wedding, Sex

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• The best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesn’t need to be read. You don’t have to read it. As a matter of fact, you can write books, and you don’t even have to read them. My books, for example, are unreadable. All you need to know is the concept behind them. Here’s every word I spoke for a week. Here’s a year’s worth of weather reports... and without ever having to read these things, you understand them.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Book, Writing, Years

  "Against Expression: Kenneth Goldsmith in Conversation". Poets.org Interview, www.poets.org. February 19, 2011.

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• The best thing for the inside of a man, is the outside of a horse.

  R. F. Delderfield

  Horse, Men

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• You don't come to terms with something before you do it. It's only after you've done it that you realize, you know, maybe that wasn't the best thing to do. Sometimes you gotta fall down to know the feeling to get up.

  DMX

  Fall, Feelings, Done

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• I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

  Taylor Swift

  Winning, Thinking, Games

  "I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. February 4, 2014.

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• The best thing you can do to set yourself apart is just be yourself. If you're fake, you know people find out who you are later, it's like, 'Well that's not who we thought you were.' Being yourself is where you feel most comfortable and people get, you know, they feel that connection the best. That's the best way to go. You always have to be yourself.

  David Archuleta

  Being Yourself, People, Fake

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• No one can understand what’s the best thing for you to do, other than yourself.

  David Archuleta

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• Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after 'The Princess Diaries.' It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.

  Anne Hathaway

  Jobs, Princess, School

  Teen People Magazine, May 2002.

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• The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

  Padma Lakshmi

  Beautiful, Touching, Body

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