
To me, growing old is great. It's the
very best thing - considering the alternative. —
Michael Caine

It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life. —
LeRoy Neiman

The greatest excuse you must have is the excuse to do your best to the
very best and in a distinctive manner —
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Very rarely do the best things in life fall into our laps; we have to work for them. —
Emilyann Girdner

Ultimately, the best runners are the ones who are willing to work very hard but who have a little bit of a lazy streak in them. —
Benji Durden

My life didn't get good until I died, Alex. The
very best part of it has been here in this flat, with you. —
L.A. Gilbert

I would consider him definitely one of my
very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect. —
Anthony Kiedis

Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant. —
Chris Martin

Strive to be the
very best at whatever you undertake in life. —
Chris Hanburger

My tastes are simple. I like only the
very best. —
Winston Churchill

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it. —
Sean Penn

Pigs are very intelligent. They're very misunderstood. Yet they're sort of man's unofficial best friend. —
Herbert

If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his
very best, everything can happen. —
Oliver Kahn

My best personality trait that I think I'm very approachable. And my worst is that I can be moody. —
Enrique Iglesias

Our message to China is very clear: we want the U.K. to be China's best partner in the West. —
George Osborne

When employees are happy, they are your
very best ambassadors. —
James Sinegal

We must motivate ourselves to do our
very best, and by our example lead others to do their best as well. —
S. Truett Cathy

We don't have to be perfect today. We don't have to be better than someone else. All we have to do is to be the
very best we can. —
Joseph B. Wirthlin

There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the
very best I ever saw. —
Stan Musial

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it. —
Ed Koch

I have been very fortunate to have been able to make a living from what I love to do best - performing and singing for people. —
Tony Bennett

We take thousands of decisions in life; the
very best ones are often the ones taken boldly and unhesitatingly! —
Mehmet Murat Ildan

I figured that I'm going to bring my own version of Billy Flynn and do my
very best with it and let it go. —
Eddie George

I vow I shall give all my
very best books to the underprivileged, once I have read them —
Barbara Kingsolver

I am easily satisfied with the
very best. —
Winston S. Churchill

'Titania' is the best yacht currently afloat of its kind and size. There is very little, if anything, that anybody would go wanting for on 'Titania.' —
John Caudwell

First I become flush with righteous anger, which, if you must be angry, is the
very best kind. —
Seth Grahame-Smith

As long as I've known her, she's seen the
very best version of me, even when I didn't believe that guy existed. —
Amanda Weaver

The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic. —
Boris Gelfand

In books, even the
very best boy detectives are dismissed with a laugh. In real life, they're sent to psychologists. —
Aaron Starmer

If positive actions leads to positive visions ... then do your
very best to stay positive at all times! —
Timothy Pina

I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time. —
Julian Fellowes

The
very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid's faces when you tell them you've done it. —
David Thewlis

If you can't get the
very best in this world, take nothing. —
Gertrude Atherton

The best way to live, then, was this: have a very simple lifestyle, be kind to those around you, and surround yourself with friends. —
Nigel Warburton

We will try to honor David Letterman achievement by doing the best show we can.And occasionally making the network very mad at us. —
Stephen Colbert

I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party. —
Jeremy Corbyn

I do my
very best to avoid shark fin. —
Anthony Bourdain

It is only by giving our
very best to the present; we will uphold the timeless future. —
Lailah Gifty Akita

For many of us, Christmas lunch is the most special meal of the year - and I certainly want nothing but the
very best for this celebration. —
Sheherazade Goldsmith

Our veterans deserve the
very best, and that means ensuring that America's veterans receive high-quality services and cares when they come back home. —
Elizabeth Warren

When we have done our very,
very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others. —
Charles Dickens

It's very nice having my mum as my agent. You know that she's always doing what's best for you. —
Freddie Highmore

Attention has to be concentrated upon your Spirit. Then you become the best instrument, your attention very powerful. —
Nirmala Srivastava

That is the
very best time of life, he thought again: when you are very young, when living is a simple, perfect succession of golden days. —
John Edward Williams

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the
very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. —
Gilbert K. Chesterton

You can't trust very many people. —
George Best

Celebration is life's frosting: isn't frosting the
very best part of the cake? —
Bethenny Frankel

I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time. —
Charlaine Harris

I think that is the difference between the very good and the best. —
Susan Polgar

I would like to say prison life at its
very best and worst infinitely sucks. —
Leonard Peltier

Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky. —
Rachel Platten

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds. —
Ralph Richardson

Love is sweet but its journey can be very bitter —
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I do know, for most of us, the
very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities. —
Robert Genn

My formula for life is very simple: in the morning, wake up; at night, go to sleep. In between I try and occupy myself as best I can. —
Cary Grant

I have watched a lot of Tendulkar and we have spoken to each other a lot. He has it in him to be among the
very best. —
Garfield Sobers

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my
very best each and every day. —
Abraham Lincoln

The way to become happy Is to think And to feel That the
very best is yet to come. —
Sri Chinmoy

I have the best husband in the world. He's very involved. —
Heidi Klum

And then come September, they fell back in step as if they'd never missed a beat. That, Peter figured, was the very definition of a best friend. —
Jodi Picoult

I think the
very best attitude for anyone investing in the stock market is to make up his mind to lose money.
- The Duchess Gloriana XII —
Leonard Wibberley

For desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the
very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition. —
Aristotle.

As a filmmaker, I've had films that over-achieved and I've had films that under-achieved. You always go in trying to do your
very best. —
Joseph McGinty Nichol

Who cares if somebody dances better? Doing my
very best is rewarding internally. —
Apolo Ohno

If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general. —
Marcus Samuelsson

I think that internal conflict works very well, because, after all, all the best drama is fuelled by conflict. —
Richard C. Armitage

I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city. —
Arthur Frommer

The New Testament is the
very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world. —
Charles Dickens

I tend to lose my performance energy the longer things go on for, so I'm always best on the very first take. —
Peter Sarsgaard

My breaking heart and I agree, that you and I could never be, so with my best ... my
very best, I set you free —
Rachael Yamagata

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the
very best novels. —
Evelyn Waugh

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the
very best fight. —
Faye Wattleton