The Good Quotes

A bad day can tell you more about yourself than a good day.

People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.

More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.

If you're the only hot dog stand in town, you're hot dogs don't have to be good.

Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.

I very seldom said no, and I was aided and abetted by my husband, who realized that the one thing I could do was to be a very good actress, by his note.

It is actually a very good thing, if after eight years of coverage the president of the United States [Barack Obama] says that this is a cooperation based on friendship that we cooperated well.

Our bilateral relations are very good, they’re very close. In the areas of business, of the economy, the United States of America last year were our most important trading partner.

But we survived, and we're a good family. I just don't want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman.

I don't have the time to curl up on my couch with a good book.

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

When I look around I think this, this is good enough; And I laugh at whatever life brings because when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff and when I look up, I just trip over things.

For me, the stronger ground I have in my personal life, then the more will I have to fight the good fight.

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

Like most, I was a mix of good and bad, anger and protectiveness, kindness and pride. But right now, I had only strangled fear and the promise of revenge.

I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first.

do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.

If you have a beating heart, that's good enough.

I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry.

You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.

You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.

Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.

My wedding will be a great party where I can get drunk and have a good time.

My whole family is quite petite, so I have good genes on my side. But I find it quite tiresome that we have to keep talking about sizes and how much weight we can lose.

I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.

I've learned after doing a couple records that if it feels good and it's easy, then that's usually a good sign. And that feeling sorta went with us to Nashville - everything was just natural.

Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.

I stay out of the sun, which is very good. If you want to be in sun, please use SPF, it's important.

I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

There are many places that people can produce really good food. I wouldn't limit it to an area of the country, it's what the chefs have in them.

I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses.

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.

Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.

Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.

Then God spoke to me and said: People say only good things about Christmas. If they want to say something bad, they whisper.

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

If I start to feel run-down or like I'm going to get sick, I know I need sleep - stat. I can sometimes keep a sickness at bay with a good night's sleep!

Having a really good partner, whether it's a good friend, someone in your family or a spouse, is always the greatest thing to have when you have a new challenge that you're facing.

Always entertain the possibility that something, no matter how squiggly and scary looking, might just be good.

I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.