Charles Best Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
-
I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
-
I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
-
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
-
We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
-
People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
-
Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
-
Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
-
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
-
Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
-
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
-
They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
-
I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
-
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
-
You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
-
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
-
For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.
-
I try to win every tournament.
-
It is interesting: in France, the horror films are not so popular. People go to see them, but not for the same reason. It is more artistic and process.
-
It was the Spice Girls who messed it all up. And obviously, the appropriating of the phrase "girl power", which at that point overrode any notion of feminism, and which was a phrase that meant absolutely nothing apart from being friends with your girlfriends.
-
I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.
-
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.
-
We've established a free marketplace of teacher ideas and donor interests.
