Best Shot Quotes - Page 3

• The novel is final form; it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to think that something you write is even going to be filmed. I give it the best shot of which I'm capable. But it's more a payday for me. And if I didn't have alimony and the full-time assistant.

  James Ellroy

  Escribir, pensar, dar

  Entrevista con Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. 9 de septiembre de 2014.

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• Our best shot at finding life in our solar system might be to look at the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Mars, increasingly, looks like a dead planet. But the oceans beneath the ice cover of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn may actually have more liquid water than the oceans of Earth.

  Michio Kaku

  Ocean, Moon, Ice

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.

  Ron Wyden

  Real, Ideas, Giving

  "A Plan for Health Reform" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2007.

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• Was that amazing?” she demanded. “That was amazing,” I agreed. It’s hard to pull off a romantic kiss when you’re both drenched in muck, but we gave it our best shot.

  Rick Riordan

  Kissing, Shots, Romantic Kiss

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• The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.

  Robert Hunter

  Golf, Player, Scratches

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• The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?

  Penélope Keith

  Jobs, Stars, Character

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• Me importa mucho lo que hago. ¿Sé qué producto vendo? No. ¿Sé lo que estoy haciendo hoy? No. Pero estoy aquí, y voy a dar lo mejor de mí.

  Owen Wilson

  Giving, Care, Today

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• It's okay, Ig." said Fang. "Just give it your best shot." Sometimes the Fangster is incredibly supportive, just not with me.

  James Patterson

  Giving, Supportive, Sometimes

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.112, Hachette UK

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• You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Roles, Lasts, Dignity

  "I'm still haunted by Belushi". The Observer, September 28, 2003.

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• I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot.

  Ariel Winter

  Giving, Done, Auditions

  "Ariel Winter is Proud to Play Smart Characters". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. March 22, 2012.

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• Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance to deadlines, irritation with materials or surroundings, distraction over the achievements of others - indeed as anything that keeps you from giving your work your best shot. What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears, continue; those who don't, quit.

  David Bayles

  Art, Irritation, Giving

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.14, Image Continuum Press

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• An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

  T. E. Lawrence

  War, Book, Finals

  "La evolución de una revuelta". The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal, octubre de 1920.

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• I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

  Twyla Tharp

  Impact, Years, Fit

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