The Good Quotes

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

I'm not one to run around with different girls. I like someone that makes me feel good and that I can make feel good.

There are perfectly good independent small nations.

But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it.

I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.

Take advantage of this great opportunity in your life to live it well, to be good, to have good works, and to influence other people for good.

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.

A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.

I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements.

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

Sometimes funerals can be good. It reunites you with your cousins you haven't seen in a while.

Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.

I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.

I'm just constantly trying to be a good dad.

It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does.

The further you go on the show, the larger the budget gets. But in the beginning they were just like, "Here's a hundred bucks in L.A. Good luck."

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

I work a lot and I like to get out and work but the work I do to make the other work work I'm not very good at.

I think thats what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether its education or housing.

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

I've seen the bottom and I know the difference between good golf and bad golf.

In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so on.

Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.

You get what you're good enough to take.

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.

You have to go through a lot of crap to get to a good idea.

You can't do a good job unless you're keen on it yourself.

Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Do good things for other people.

Mitt Romney is not going to run for president. Mitt said it's time for fresh faces. So that's good news for Bruce Jenner.

I got some good news earlier today before the show. Thanks to Alex Rodriguez, I am no longer the most overpaid disappointment in New York City.

My good friend Paul Shaffer and I are going to continue in show business. Next month Paul and I will debut our new act at Caesar's Palace with our white tigers.

Some good news. Finally, President Bush is going to do something about global warming. He became alarmed when another chunk of ice fell off his mother.

Finally we got some good news about the economy. Barack Obama got $800 billion to rescue the economy. All I can say is, 'Thank you, Oprah.'

Do you remember the good ol' days when Congress was only unsafe if you were an intern.

I say good-bye to the part of myself that misses him so much.

If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.

Neophyte, n. There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice?

They defy gravity, as good books should.