Top 36 The Best Thing Since Quotes
#1. Kate Moss is the best thing since Jean Shrimpton, really.
David Bailey
#2. I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.
Dexter Fletcher
#3. Well, I know what you feel for Jeb. And it's simple and pure. You two have been friends since the day you met. And it grew into something more. That's a tangible thing, Butterfly. And so rare. The best kind of love.
A.G. Howard
#4. Cruelty is older than the Bible. Savagery beat its chest in the first human summer and has kept beating it every day since. The worst in men is commonplace. The best is a far rarer thing.
Dennis Lehane
#5. You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do.
Linus Torvalds
#6. I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
Valeria Golino
#7. It's political glue inside Europe to keep it together - the euro is the best thing going for it since the creation of the common market.
Robert Mundell
#8. I don't drink since it ruined the best thing I ever had.
Kimberly Lauren
#9. Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use the same sounds as people; don't use the same drums as people.
Benny Blanco
#10. Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.
Twyla Tharp
#11. I have been doing this since I was nine years old. So whatever the role is, I am going to do the best I can do. The only thing I am concerned with is stepping on the stage in front of that camera and giving the best performance I know I can give, day in and day out as an actor.
Darius McCrary
#12. Never let a man put his hands on you without your permission.
Melda Beaty
#13. The best thing to do was to stop it while he still could, since it was something that would lead nowhere, painfully.
Mark Helprin
#14. Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk ... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'
Noam Chomsky
#15. I won't lie to you - it was hilarious. Yes, we were in trouble, yes, this was a disaster, and so one and so forth, but I have to say, seeing those upturned faces, the looks, was bout the best thing that happened to us since we'd come to New York.
James Patterson
#16. From "Famous"
I want to be famous the in the way a pulley is famous,/or a buttonhole,not because it did anything spectacular,/but because it never forgot what it could do.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#17. He was the only boy I'd found worth dating in God knows how many schools. I mean, ever since he'd been bitten by a werwulf he'd been rock-steady. The best thing about this totally effed-up situation.
Lilith Saintcrow
#18. I think the best thing is being able to play golf competitively for a living. Ever since I was a little boy, that's something I've always wanted to do, and now I get a chance to live out my dreams.
Tiger Woods
#19. savor
with me
the lushness
of a lingering sleep...
and last night's
dream.
Sanober Khan
#20. Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and vision. Liberal Arts is the best movie about college I've seen since I don't know what ... Dryly affectionate and super-sharp. Elizabeth Olsen is every inch a star.
Owen Gleiberman
#21. I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.
Gene Wolfe
#22. These what-if equations have kept her life static since adolescence. And if life proves one thing, it's that the best laid plans don't necessarily lead to the best results.
Nick Alexander
#23. Some of my college friends used to laugh at me. But no one's laughing anymore. Now, they all try to get free underwear.
Garrett Neff
#24. The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.
Alma Guillermoprieto
#25. The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.
Marshall McLuhan
#26. One thing I have learned since coming to Tosu City is that age does not guarantee better decisions or stronger leadership. The ability to put aside personal agendas and decide what is best for the whole does.
Joelle Charbonneau
#27. Here am bound, the scorn of fate; 'Twas a dream that once a state I enjoyed of light and gladness. What is life? 'Tis but a madness. What is life? A thing that seems, A mirage that falsely gleams, Phantom joy, delusive rest, Since is life a dream at best, And even dreams themselves are dreams.
Pedro Calderon De La Barca
#28. It seems to me that there will be a point in out development or our evolution where you put your guns aside.
Bill Hicks
#29. Probably not great to call a nine-year-old a prostitute," Mira said.
"Fine. Filthy whore, then.
Kate Scelsa
#30. The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.
Joan Rivers
#31. I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
Webb Simpson
#32. For those of you curious about the menu, I am drinking tear soup.
Hanif Kureishi
#33. I'm telling you, Ivy, this is the best thing to happen to her since that boy band she liked got run over by a pack of migrating deer. Look how relaxed she is. Better than a spa day.
Kim Harrison
#34. By the time she got back to work, the only thing Gabby knew for certain was that as forgiving as he'd been, she'd never live down what she'd done, and since there wasn't a rock large enough to crawl under, it was in her best interest to find a way to avoid him.
Nicholas Sparks
#36. ROSS PEROT was the best thing that happened in American politics since Richard Nixon acquired a taste for gin. In both cases, the political dialogue of the day was enriched by spontaneous gibberish that entertained the wrong people and made the right ones question their faith.
Hunter S. Thompson
