Quotes with second-best

Quotes 801 till 820 of 1600.

  • Boman Irani Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
    - +
     0
  • Jean de la Bruyère One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
    - +
     0
  • Ben Zobrist One of my best friends, James Miller, managed to find the only Cubs hat that is all red.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
    - +
     0
  • Josh Billings One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
    - +
     0
  • Groucho Marx One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
    - +
     0
  • John Naisbitt One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
    John Naisbitt
    American author and public speaker (1929 - )
    - +
     0
  • Frank Herbert One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
    Frank Herbert
    American science fiction writer (1920 - 1986)
    - +
     0
  • Eric Butterworth One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
    - +
     0
  • Bernie S. Siegel One of the best ways to change is to act as if you are the person you want to become. When you behave as if you are a different person, you change on a very basic level - even your physiology changes. When actors and actresses perform, their body chemistry is altered by the roles they play.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
    - +
     0
  • Dean Rusk One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.
    - +
     0
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Josh Billings One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
    - +
     0
  • Bee Wilson One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
    - +
     0
  • C. Everett Koop One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
    - +
     0
  • Jonathan Swift One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
    - +
     0
  • Eleanor Roosevelt One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
    - +
     0
  • Henry Ward Beecher Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
    - +
     0
  • Plautus Ones oldest friend is the best.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
    - +
     0
  • William Somerset Maugham Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
    - +
     0
  • Branch Rickey Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
    - +
     0
All second-best famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 41)