Top 100 Next Best Thing To Quotes
#1. Sometimes missing things was the next best thing to having them.
Terry Bisson
#2. I was in my recliner bundled up in my terrycloth robe, a gift from my great aunt Maureen, that came with some sage advice: darling, after a warm body, a terrycloth robe is the next best thing to cuddle up with on a cold night.
Suzanne M. Trauth
#4. I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Frank A. Clark
#5. The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote some one who is.
Mary Pettibone Poole
#6. Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
Samuel Johnson
#9. Looking young and attractive with makeup is the next best thing to actually being young and attractive. After all, a woman only has a few years where she really is youthful, but she can wear foundation makeup til the day she dies (and even after!).
Linda Sunshine
#10. The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
C.S. Lewis
#11. Next best thing to a sexy man, is a sexy book!
Leila Lacey
#12. Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
Charles Horton Cooley
#13. Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#15. Learning what you don't want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you want to do.
Anderson Cooper
#16. How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.
Jason Giambi
#18. The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#19. Brought to you by raising your voice. The next best thing to being right.
Demetri Martin
#20. This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
Michael Korda
#21. Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.
Oprah Winfrey
#22. Long distance is the next best thing to being there. But a dove in love would rather reach out and touch someone. Spring is in the air and all lines are busy with local calls as the wooing and cooing commences.
Charley Harper
#23. The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.
Nick Dandolos
#24. The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
Graham Greene
#25. It was the fangirl code for every book geek: read, chat, squeal. Re-read, chat, and squeal again, until it's all over and the dreaded book funk sets in. Find the next best thing to fill the void, then repeat steps one through three as necessary.
Rachael Wade
#26. I sometimes wear headphones even though I'm not listening to anything just so I'm left alone. It's the next best thing to wearing a 'Do Not Disturb' sign.
Karl Pilkington
#28. The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.
Eric S. Raymond
#29. Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring ... It's the next best thing to being there.
Ellyn Stern
#30. I don't wear much makeup, except during work. I felt lucky to be chosen to be a model. I used to joke, 'The next best thing to winning the lottery is having a beauty contract.'
Isabella Rossellini
#32. Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
Edward Abbey
#33. The script's always important, but there are some things that have come out in the past year that, when we read them, everyone was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be the next best thing!" Then the movie falls completely flat on its face.
Douglas Booth
#34. The next thing I want to say is that God's way is always the best way. It's the only way, really. And God's word clearly says he created sex for one man and one woman to share only inside the commitment of marriage
Robin Jones Gunn
#35. The best thing you can do is to keep riding your snowboard and love what you're doing. Without a passion for the sport it's difficult to take your riding to the next level.
Mark McMorris
#36. The Unknown is scary. I'll always have some fear about what's going to happen next. The thing is, the Unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant anytime. But sometimes, that change is the best thing that will ever happen to you.
Susane Colasanti
#37. If you are not able to travel, he told me, the next best thing is to read. Read all you can, girl. And store up that knowledge, for you never know when you will need it.
Paula Brackston
#38. Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
Sophocles
#39. I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.
Judy Holliday
#40. She bit her lower lip hard and blinked her eyes. There was such wistfulness and longing in his voice. Oh, she was going to give him back his eyes, or the next best thing, if it took her the rest of her life to do it.
Mary Balogh
#41. We don't know what's going to happen this summer or who's going to be here next year. We have no control over any of that. So, we're going to play our [22 remaining] games and do the best we can and show up for the New York Knick fans. That's the most important thing.
Jalen Rose
#42. The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is - not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.
George MacDonald
#44. He [the Doctor] groaned. 'Why does it always have to be me?'
'Mr Rory is ill. You're the next best thing,' I [Maria] said simply.
'Thank you,' he muttered. He didn't sound very pleased at all at that.
James Goss
#45. If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You need people who are adaptable because the thing that makes you the best in the world in one generation of games is going to be totally useless in the next.
Gabe Newell
#46. A lot of the time, when I'm choreographing, I'm not thinking about what movement look best next to the next movement - I'm actually thinking about what song and what sound sounds right next to the next thing. So kind of choreographing as if I'm always making a mix tape, so to speak.
Kyle Abraham
#47. It was the sort of anger that comes to a slow boil inside the hearts of good men who want justice, and finding it out oftheir grasp, decide vengeance is the next best thing.
Patrick Rothfuss
#48. I can't go to bed with John Wayne, so I do the next best thing: I go to bed with my girlfriend, who once met the great man. That's how much I love westerns.
Clive Sinclair
#49. My father used to administer herbal medicine for free. But I can't give drugs for free. So the next best thing is to give it at as low a price as possible.
Kallam Anji Reddy
#50. The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.
George Matthew Adams
#51. All you can do is take each day as it comes. Try and do the best you can with what you're given. You won't always do the right thing, but you can try. And you can try to do the right thing next time. That, and stay alive.
Joe Abercrombie
#52. If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#53. And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.
L.M. Montgomery
#54. was the sort of anger that comes to a slow boil inside the hearts of good men who want justice, and finding it out of their grasp, decide vengeance is the next best thing. I
Patrick Rothfuss
#55. Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.
P. J. O'Rourke
#56. Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.
C.S. Lewis
#57. The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.
Jean De La Bruyere
#58. For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. You will start hearing all these sounds coming in. Once you let them in, you've already done the first and most critical thing, you've honored that information by including it. And by doing that, you've actually changed the world.
Robert Irwin
#59. If you can't do what you really want to do, then do the next best thing!
Stacey Culpepper
#60. I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.
Isaac Asimov
#61. The crew knew because they had heard from other people, and when I showed up on the set the next day, they were all looking at me kind of weird. I told them that Bill always taught me that whenever something bad like that happens, the best thing to do is work.
Brandon Cruz
#62. I think the best thing, if you can't get an air-tight deal with every "I" dotted and every "t" crossed is let the next president have a chance to deal with the Iranians.
Lindsey Graham
#63. According to the 'food waste pyramid,' ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals.
Tristram Stuart
#64. Obviously, a lot of things play on your mind when you're batting. This might happen and this might not. The best thing you can do when you're batting is not to think too much, and wait for the next ball.
Yuvraj Singh
#66. Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.
Florence King
#67. You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you write your great draft, as best as you can, and then move on to the next thing.
Jon Spaihts
#68. Fine writing, next to doing nothing, is the best thing in the world.
John Keats
#69. I don't really know who I am as an actor: the best thing would be to experiment with it for the next 30 years and never really find out.
Ben Barnes
#70. Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.
Chip Heath
#71. You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?
John McGraw
#72. Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer.
Prince Harry
#73. The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
Sydney J. Harris
#74. If I couldn't hide from [bullies], then the next best thing was to blind them with my glorious fabulousness.
Chris O'Guinn
#75. If you can't have another ally," I said at last, "next best thing is to give your enemy another enemy.
Benedict Jacka
#76. The thing that's really kept me on my toes is how my mom would always tell me - it's not the best thing for a mother to tell you - but she'd never tell me after I'd lose a soccer game, 'You'll do better next time.' She'd always say, 'There's always somebody better.'
Brandon Flowers
#77. I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.
Miranda Otto
#78. Next time she'd have to ask him to keep the light on while he did it, so she could watch his face. That was the best part of the whole thing as far as she was concerned, the way a guy's face contorted so violently and then relaxed, as if some terrible mystery had just been solved.
Tom Perrotta
#79. I never felt brave. I never had a moment of extreme courage or belief that this was going to be the best decision I had ever made. I just did the next thing.
Annie F. Downs
#80. If you're not in college and you don't know a cofounder, the next best thing I think is to go work at an interesting company.
Sam Altman
#81. The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#82. The best thing about the Nikita show is that there's so many layers. Even after the pilot, the next four have a twist. Don't think that you've seen it all or that you know it now, and that it's not going to have any more surprises. There's a surprise in every episode, so it's a lot to keep track of.
Lyndsy Fonseca
#83. The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.
Jan Peacock
#84. It's a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don't know of any first-rate artist who hasn't manifested in his career an appalling patience, a willingness to wait and to do his best now in the expectation that next year he will do better.
Mark Van Doren
#85. I think that the best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue. For me the best way to fight against terrorism and extremism ... just a simple thing: educate the next generation.
Malala Yousafzai
#86. It was like this sometimes, and I felt I should look away, but I couldn't. I wanted to be there, having my face touched, defeating a heart like Peter's, but the next best thing was seeing it for Tiger Lily.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#87. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
L.M. Montgomery
#88. One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.
P.G. Wodehouse
#89. If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!
Dana Hill
#90. We know people by their stories: their history, their habits, their secrets, their triumphs and failures. We know them by what they do. We want to know mountains too, but they've got no story. So we do the next best thing. We throw ourselves onto them and make the stories happen.
Bruce Barcott
#91. I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.
Pete McCarthy
#92. ( ... ) maybe the heart is an organ on constant ready, always waiting to try again, always open to the next best thing.
Kate Ellison
#93. Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps - good works.
Charles Lamb
#94. I always wanted to be a player, but I never had the talent to make the big leagues. So I did the next best thing: I bought a team.
Charlie Finley
#95. And we shall all carry on with our hearts set on the next best thing ... because we know how we have lived and understand what we have lost, and aren't willing to lose so much the second time through.
Isabel Aanya Leigh
#96. If you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be left alone.
L.M. Montgomery
#97. If you can't invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.
John Doerr
#98. To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#99. The very best thing for music would be to live next door to a person who listens to loud music so you could mishear music everyday and mutate it to your own means.
Dar Williams
#100. There is one thing new in sexual mores and that is today's bisexual chic ... if you can't truthfully claim to be bisexual yourself, the next best thing is to reveal that one, or both, of your parents was.
Helen Lawrenson
