Good Quotes

"Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers"

Marvin Harris, Scientist

"There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past"

William Bernbach, Businessman

"What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"Good things happen when you meet strangers"

Yo-Yo Ma, Musician

"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second"

John Irving, Novelist

"It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening"

David Zucker, Director

"Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time"

Trevor Dunn, Musician

"Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid"

Lionel Hampton, Musician

"A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good"

John McGahern, Writer

"I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place"

Arthur Godfrey, Entertainer

"We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines"

Shawn Fanning, Businessman

"What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older"

Russell Banks, Author

"If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard"

Sheryl Sandberg, Businessman

"My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery"

Margaret Cavendish, Writer

"When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"Johnny Cash was plenty good enough to fool his fans. They believed he felt it in his soul when he sang the Gospel while stoned on drugs"

Suzanne Fields

"I always felt good about myself. I was just an average person. I always felt I could do anything anyone else could. If an average person makes up their mind to do something, they can"

Larry Holmes, Athlete

"It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job"

Susan Sarandon, Actress

"It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity"

Robin Gibb, Musician

"I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great"

Nafisa Joseph, Model

"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you"

Paul Bryant, Coach

"There are only about three really, really good sitcoms on the air"

Sharon Gless, Actress

"A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time"

Paul Bryant, Coach

"Any room where you feel a good vibe is a good place to write"

Nicole Appleton, Musician

"Whatever its other limitations, the Big Apple and those who live there make room for their dogs and cats, take good care of them and abide by the rules made necessary by a huge population"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time"

Josef Albers, Artist

"The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race"

Karl Shapiro, Poet

"Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws"

Rick Warren, Writer

"Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war"

Golda Meir, Leader

"I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that"

William Kidd, Explorer

"I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins"

Frank Dane

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