The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top.
It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.
Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.
I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can - thinking, figuring, planning - and then you pray.
Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.
The best part about being a champion is going out and defending your belt, so that's what I plan on doing and doing it many times.
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
One of the things I've learned over the years is that you only do what you can do as an actor. You do the best job you can, but you have no control over so many elements that are going to determine the outcome of that film. I never pay attention to what happens after.
Trusting your gut is always the best thing - no matter what people around you insist you should be doing or saying or thinking. Only you know and once you live in truth,your heart is completely free.
I think you have regrets when you didn't give it everything you had, and I always felt like I did. Whether it was good enough or not, that has nothing to do with the fact that I tried my best to give my team a chance to win, year in and year out.
My two favorite musicals growing up in were 'Annie' and 'Sweeney Todd,' and my best friend and I would sing all the songs when I was a kid.
If you want to change things, politics is the best way to do that.
Entrepreneurship is like a computer game in which you have to master every level before achieving success. Startups repeatedly stumble and have to go back to the drawing board. The best way to skip some levels and to increase the odds of survival is to learn from others who have already played the game.
I take the best of all the styles I like and put them together in one package.
I love to see Favre playing his best football, and if his mind his right, he'll probably have a fine season.
If it was up to me, every show would start at midnight, and I'd give people the best of me.
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
An actor with a genuine gift has the power to transport you from whatever your own pains may be into an entirely different world, freeing you from whatever you may be going through. At its best, it can be better than any medication.
Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.
I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.
Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.
I have the best job in the world. I wake up every morning energized at the thought of running Rio de Janeiro, the most exciting city on the planet.
The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.
My family and I are just regular folks, just trying to get through the day and do the best you can and pay the bills, and that's who we're singing to.
I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me.
I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.
Angelina is my daughter and I am always wishing her the best.
I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?
The best way to honor someone who has passed is to live.
Directing is the best job going. I don't understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It's an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every level - emotional and practical and technical. It calls up on such a wide variety of skills. I find it completely absorbing. I just love the whole process.
The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.
