“The seven marvels that best represent man's achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote... so look for Howard Stern's Private Parts to come in No. 1.”
What does it mean to be the best? These quotes tackle excellence, personal bests, peak performance, and the drive to push past good enough. Some are about competition, others about the quieter pursuit of doing your finest work when nobody is watching.
“The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.”
“The seven marvels that best represent man's achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote... so look for Howard Stern's Private Parts to come in No. 1.”
“The best protection any woman can have... is courage.”
“You'll live. Only the best get killed.”
“The things we remember best are those better forgotten.”
“You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.”
“Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.”
“It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.”
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”
“Only a mediocre person is always at his best.”
“We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.”
“I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.”
“Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.”
“A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.”
“I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.”
“I put on the best live show, the absolute best live show I can possibly can.”