Good Quotes

"If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was"

"Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked"

"Only the young die good"

"When I came back I had to realize that IC was not in a very good shape - all the much money that we had because of the huge Ideal success, was gone. I was very upset"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true"

William J. Clinton, President

"I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"Life is all about having a good time"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"Good music is very close to primitive language"

Denis Diderot, Editor

"I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun"

Craig Bruce

"To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new"

Nicolas Cage, Actor

"If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it"

James Laughlin, Poet

"I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets"

James Laughlin, Poet

"I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation"

Charles W. Pickering, Judge

"I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good"

Oscar Levant, Composer

"It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body"

Regina Spektor, Musician

"The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"It takes good memory to keep up a lie"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend"

Paul Sweeney, Politician

"If I have enough money to eat I'm good"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing"

Herodotus, Historian

"The first step in good reporting is good snooping"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"You can't legislate good will - that comes through education"

Malcolm X, Activist

"A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors"

Jason Statham, Actor

"I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

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