Good Quotes

"Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good"

Ted Rall, Cartoonist

"See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is"

Geraldine Ferraro, Politician

"I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told"

Patty Hearst, Celebrity

"When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised"

Ritchie Blackmore, Musician

"I want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service"

Sonny Perdue, Politician

"If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem"

Robert Anthony, Educator

"They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me"

Tom Glazer, Musician

"When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird"

Minna Antrim, Writer

"If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music"

Obie Trice, Musician

"Downloading songs is not good"

Obie Trice, Musician

"California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw"

Stuart Rothenberg

"Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him"

Stephen Breyer, Judge

"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction"

Janet Frame, Novelist

"New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do"

Steve Harvey, Actor

"I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less"

Stephen Breyer, Judge

"It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on"

Matthew Ashford, Actor

"Planned change is good. It is being the best, giving your best, and doing your best-on purpose"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress"

Robert Wagner, Actor

"All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life"

Joe Eszterhas, Writer

"Sandler's always good. Tom Hanks gave me some good advice"

Jimmy Fallon, Comedian

"As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

"I'm not good at accepting help"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline"

Ritchie Blackmore, Musician

"They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done"

William Devane, Actor

"The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care"

John Shadegg, Politician

"In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner"

Umberto Eco, Novelist

"There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before"

John Bonham, Musician

"Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time"

Robert Vaughn, Actor

"Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

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