Good Quotes

"As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road"

Trish Stratus, Entertainer

"I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me"

Ted Rall, Cartoonist

"Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"The good old days are now"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well"

Rick Danko, Musician

"So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix"

Sebastian Bach, Musician

"I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page"

Joan Baez, Musician

"It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you"

Nana Mouskouri, Musician

"Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil"

Maximilien Robespierre, Leader

"I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word"

John Sexton, Educator

"If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"People who produce good results feel good about themselves"

Ken Blanchard, Author

"So you can't lose serving God, and that all things work together for good"

Jim Bakker, Celebrity

"As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible"

Jim Bakker, Celebrity

"Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed"

Brooke Shields, Actress

"I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile"

Bryan White, Musician

"I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that"

Jim Wallis, Writer

"The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent"

Danielle Steel, Novelist

"But there are still good shows like 24, Boomtown and the Wire, the Shield"

Shemar Moore, Actor

"In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny"

Bobby Farrelly, Director

"It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views"

Heather Matarazzo, Actress

"I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work"

Ben Stiller, Comedian

"I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor"

Ben Stiller, Comedian

"It's not enough just being a good passer of the ball"

Jamie Redknapp, Athlete

"Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence"

Pearl Bailey, Actress

"There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"A dead end street is a good place to turn around"

Naomi Judd, Musician

"We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything"

Mike Lowry, Politician

"If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"Just because I haven't yet had any project surgery, I'm not going to knock it, because I think women have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies that make them feel good about themselves"

Susan Sarandon, Actress

"I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania"

Sharon Stone, Actress

"Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something"

Jimmy Fallon, Comedian

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