The Good Quotes

It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.

We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.

The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow days, music and bright smelling memories.

If better were within, better would come out.

Every good marriage must be a friendship between two people who are willing to sacrifice for the other person.

Let's fly away and live forever

It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on.

A young man who doesn't have the foresight to seek out the girl he wants to be with and actively pursue her, doesn't deserve her.

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.

Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.

I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.

Deep inside, the majority of people had the sneaking suspicion that evil was more powerful than good and could be counteracted only by more evil.

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help.

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.

Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

There's such an odd, eclectic group of people that make up the town of Plymouth, New Hampshire. I don't think I could avoid not coming out of there with a pretty good sense of humor.

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.

I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman's kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that's the case, that's good parenting.

My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.

I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.

But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

I've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.

I play a lot of sports. I'm not real good at any of them. I'm above adequate.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.