Good Quotes

"A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I've felt in pretty good control of my golf game"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full"

Gerry Adams, Politician

"The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin"

Gerry Adams, Politician

"People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones"

Bob Riley, Politician

"The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions"

A. E. Housman, Poet

"Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation"

Allen Tate, Poet

"Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters"

Robin Wright Penn, Actress

"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it"

Jon Bon Jovi, Musician

"I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago"

Al Jarreau, Musician

"Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it"

Bertha von Suttner, Novelist

"Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one"

Robert Johnson, Psychologist

"If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities"

Robert Johnson, Psychologist

"A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill"

Pericles, Statesman

"It wasn't like it is now. But for the types of teams we had, the fans were very good here. On some Thursday afternoon games, we'd get 25,000 fans. That was remarkable. This has always been a great Red Sox city"

Curt Gowdy, Celebrity

"I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters"

Tara Strong, Actress

"I have always been a good mimic"

Robin Wright Penn, Actress

"I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"No nice men are good at getting taxis"

Katherine Whitehorn, Journalist

"To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life"

Jennifer Garner, Actress

"There's no good guys and bad guys"

Hal Holbrook, Actor

"One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance"

Whitfield Diffie, Scientist

"There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way"

Michael Nesmith, Musician

"You begin by always expecting good things to happen"

Tom Hopkins, Businessman

"A liar should have a good memory"

Quintilian, Educator

"What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it"

John Milius, Director

"At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year"

Thomas Tusser, Poet

"The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part"

Sylvia Browne, Celebrity

"My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time"

Meg Tilly, Actress

"Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom"

Kevin Ayers, Composer

"In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it"

Graeme Le Saux, Athlete

"It's like going to the gym everyday. It really is. I work hard on my craft, I sweat a little bit, I run a little bit, I might sprain an ankle every now and them, but it's all good and the more you do it, the more in shape you are and it's like a machine"

Nia Long, Actress

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