Best Things Quotes - Page 35

• I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.

  Susannah York

  Life, Being In Love, Love Is

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• The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.

  Terri Windling

  Nature, Jobs, Thinking

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• I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

  Sam Waterston

  Success, Father, Thinking

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• The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.

  Roy Wood

  Play, Rehearsal, Brilliant

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• It's not a question of doing the best thing for the environment - the best thing for the environment is for people to stop using vast amounts of energy.

  Mike Hulme

  Wind, People, Energy

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• I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal. Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.

  Alan Bradley

  Thinking, Long Ago, Oatmeal

  Alan Bradley (2011). “A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.145, Delacorte Press

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• And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Dad, Player, Ideas

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• The best thing about my family is my wife. She is a great first lady. I know that sounds not very objective, but that's how I feel. And she's also patient. Putting up with me requires a lot of patience.

  George W. Bush

  Wife, Sound, Firsts

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• The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

  Orson Scott Card

  Jobs, The End Of The Day, Stopping

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• The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dark, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (1977). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1915-1919”, Chatto & Windus

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• When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Boys, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.3863, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.

  John Steinbeck

  Good Things, Happens, Ifs

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.505, Penguin

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• Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a way you don't understand. Or it can make you weep like a sailor's wife staring at a storm.

  Russell Howard

  Moving, Mean, Wife

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• Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Blessing, Disaster

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• After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.

  Anthony Trollope

  Fear, Next, Grudge

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• Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat.

  Joe Bastianich

  Simple, Done, Being The Best

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• The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there's Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn't know anything about. He has no discipline.

  Barry Goldwater

  Thinking, Discipline, Letters

  "Barry Goldwater's Left Turn". Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.washingtonpost.com. July 28, 1994.

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• Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now.

  John Steinbeck

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath”, p.54, Penguin

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• The best thing a writer can do is walk. Walking gives you ideas.

  Tony Grisoni

  Ideas, Giving, Walks

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• Looking back now I realise that the worst things that happened to me were the best things in disguise - I just didn’t know how to read the signs.

  Jan Hellriegel

  Worst, Disguise, Realising

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• A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. When I read an indifferent book, it seems the best thing I can do, but the inspiring volume hardly leaves me leisure to finish its latter pages. It is slipping out of my fingers while I read. It creates no atmosphere in which it may be perused, but one in which its teachings may be practiced. It confers on me such wealth that I lay it down with regret. What I began by reading I must finish by acting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Regret, Book, Teaching

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• The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

  George Best

  Dad, Son, Men

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• Habit is the best thing for you if you’re trying to write prose.

  Alan Cheuse

  Writing, Trying, Habit

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• You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'

  Eli Roth

  Horror, Film, Knows

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• Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.

  Ken Robinson

  School, Mind, Sometimes

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.146, Penguin

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