Good Quotes

"Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word"

Alan K. Simpson, Politician

"That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love"

Laura Dern, Actress

"Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East"

Marvin Harris, Scientist

"One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music"

Robert Moog, Inventor

"Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities"

Marvin Harris, Scientist

"Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes"

Cole Porter, Composer

"The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man"

Louis Farrakhan, Activist

"If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life"

Isaiah Thomas, Athlete

"You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset"

Dan O'Brien, Athlete

"Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong"

William E. Gladstone, Leader

"Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent"

Victor Garber, Actor

"All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good"

Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress

"On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners"

George Mikes, Writer

"Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good"

Howard Stern, Entertainer

"I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor"

John Malkovich, Actor

"To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony"

Frank Leslie, Artist

"Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke"

Brion James, Actor

"That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well"

Albert Finney, Actor

"Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too"

Albert Finney, Actor

"The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies"

Adam Arkin, Actor

"A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance"

Alanis Morissette, Musician

"A good conscience is a continual feast"

Robert Burton

"The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"A good example is far better than a good precept"

Dwight L. Moody, Clergyman

"A good photograph is knowing where to stand"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?"

William Wycherley, Dramatist

"Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good"

Joe Paterno, Coach

"Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

"Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Musician

"The outstanding people realized that the job involved more than just writing a good strategic plan. It was also important that top management should understand the plan and be prepared to adopt it"

David C. McClelland, Psychologist

"Note, that yeast of good Beer, is better then that of Ale"

Kenelm Digby, Celebrity

"Nothing that is really good and God-like dies"

Ernst Moritz Arndt, Poet

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another"

Eustace Budgell, Writer

"I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me"

Fred Perry, Athlete

"To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect"

Alexander Calder, Sculptor

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