Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
Barbra Streisand

My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it.
Tom T. Hall

One can build from ordinary stone a humble house or the finest chateau.
Leon N. Cooper

One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.
Daniel Inouye

Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.
Judy Biggert

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.
Roger Clemens

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.
Humphry Davy

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
George Eliot

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
Virginia Woolf

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
Francis Wright

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
Roger Babson

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
David Lloyd George

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
Isadora Duncan

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
George Eliot

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
Bertolt Brecht

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
Michel de Montaigne

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
John N. Mitchell

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
Aldous Huxley

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.
John L. Lewis