Good Quotes

"We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good"

James Laughlin, Poet

"Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve"

Craig Bruce

"Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do a re-write. That's something we do almost nothing of"

James Laughlin, Poet

"What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does"

Bill Moyers, Journalist

"Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"Good things happen to those who hustle"

Anais Nin, Author

"I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good"

Al Goldstein, Publisher

"And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting"

John Cleese, Actor

"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"When I'm able to see the ice ahead of time when I get the puck, I'm able to make some pretty good plays"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"My body's feeling it a little bit. But one good thing, my back is in good shape, and that's my main concern. I know that my legs are going to take awhile to get back to where I was a few years ago, but as long as my back is solid, I feel that I can play many years"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"Everybody I talked to - from my friends to my family and some of the players - really gave me a lot of support from the start. And that certainly made me feel good about trying to come back and be one of the best again"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"It's really a good feeling to know that we put this up there, that it's working, that all these people's plans that worked so hard came together and things fit and we've got a real space station"

Linda M. Godwin, Astronaut

"It definitely helps to have been through the arm training flow before and to have used the arm on orbit, and it also gives me the confidence to know that our training facilities are really good, that when you get up there, you feel like you've been there"

Linda M. Godwin, Astronaut

"In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things"

Linda M. Godwin, Astronaut

"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with"

John Cleese, Actor

"Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith"

Lord Acton, Historian

"As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery"

Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist

"I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game"

Wilhelm Steinitz, Celebrity

"Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game"

Wilhelm Steinitz, Celebrity

"Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends"

Maria Callas, Musician

"And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

"Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather"

Chuck Berry, Musician

"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now"

Simon Pegg, Comedian

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