Good Quotes

"A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be"

Ann Plato

"Good wits will jump"

George Villiers, Politician

"The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a dam' good head waiter"

Nubar Gulbenkian, Poet

"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind"

William Shenstone, Poet

"I think most people live in a space where they are looking for meaning in life and good in the world and that is not necessarily reflected in straight news coverage right now"

Daryn Kagan, Entertainer

"The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one"

Sid Caesar, Actor

"A heart makes a good home for the friend"

Yunus Emre, Poet

"I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well"

Marian McPartland, Musician

"He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be"

Colin Quinn, Comedian

"I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't"

Viggo Mortensen, Actor

"I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players"

Ted Lindsay, Athlete

"I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us"

Roy Wood, Musician

"A good novel editor is invisible"

Terri Windling, Artist

"The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried cheese! It is really, really, really good. And really, really, really bad for you. It's like an artery on a plate"

Michelle Trachtenberg, Actress

"What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire"

Paul Hogan, Actor

"There's always something about the Tonight Show that makes me a little bit anxious, nervous, excited. But it's good. It's good. It's been real good for me. It always has helped my career and Jay and all the people here have always been great"

Jon Secada, Musician

"I spend a lot of time at my son's school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies"

Virginia Madsen, Actress

"Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff"

Dan Hicks, Musician

"The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases"

Caskie Stinnett

"Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil"

Bhumibol Adulyadej, Statesman

"I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going"

Barbara Mandrell, Musician

"That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good"

Meg White, Musician

"A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's"

Richard Whately, Writer

"I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader"

Leroy Chiao, Astronaut

"Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good"

Thomas Browne, Scientist

"I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones"

Bill Parcells, Coach

"Well, it's a day-to-day thing. I don't feel comfortable in my body today at all. Any woman will tell you she has her good and bad days and today I did not feel like I looked my best or felt radiant inside or outside"

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Model

"I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine"

Ralph Boston, Athlete

"When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner"

Halle Berry, Actress

"Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up"

Patty Murray, Politician

"There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian"

Murray Rothbard, Economist

"I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl"

Robin Tunney, Actress

"As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray"

Joseph C. Wilson, Public Servant

"If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers"

Irvin S. Cobb, Journalist

"I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then"

Umberto Guidoni, Astronaut

"I think a good song is a good song is a good song"

Tim Finn, Musician

"The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time"

Bill Murray, Actor

"We have a good time and try not to kill each other"

Isaac Hanson, Musician

"If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it"

Abraham Cahan, Author

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