Good Quotes

"How good is God! How sweet his yoke!"

"Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

"What good is sitting all alone in your room?"

Liza Minnelli, Actress

"To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals"

Ellis Peters, Author

"He was a top man and a good professional. He was one of those who you know will never play a trick and you can ask him to do anything for you and he will. An unassuming man and a great loss to us all"

Geoffrey Boycott, Athlete

"An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance"

Curt Gowdy, Celebrity

"It's been really good to have a goal and go after it. That feels good"

Shannon Miller, Athlete

"I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot"

Robin Wright Penn, Actress

"I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life"

Martina Hingis, Athlete

"The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good"

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian

"Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go"

Raymond E. Feist, Author

"I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs"

Joan Jett, Musician

"And I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy"

Whoopi Goldberg, Actress

"The only thing you owe the public is a good performance"

Humphrey Bogart, Actor

"I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings"

Robert Toombs, Politician

"My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it"

Graeme Le Saux, Athlete

"And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good"

Terrence Howard, Actor

"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure"

Knute Rockne, Coach

"You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk"

Ron Chernow, Author

"I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"As for ABC you can't take it personally. We had three good years"

Sela Ward, Actress

"And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation"

Marsha Blackburn, Politician

"In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me"

Black Elk, Leader

"A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better"

Fred Allen, Comedian

"I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe"

Joan Jett, Musician

"I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure"

Joan Jett, Musician

"I was out to have a good time and have some fun. It's a fun script and fun people are in the movie"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"No photographer is as good as the simplest camera"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover"

Edward Grey, Politician

"Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life"

Martha Beck, Author

"There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me"

Skeet Ulrich, Actor

"Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

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