The Good Quotes

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.

People around you that you feel you're close to, are they really wishing you good things, you know?

The theater's been very good to me and I became Julie Halston through the theater.

My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but a perfect Heavenly Father offers forgiveness and second chances.

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.

I wanted so much to keep you safe. I did my best. I'm sorry things didn't come out different for the two of us. I wish I could have been good enough for you.

I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk about it.

It's important to not be naive about this world and know that it's not necessarily a good place to be.

I haven't been in politics too long so that's a good thing.

Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.

There were a bunch of moments that kept cascading. Like, when we got an opportunity to play "Letterman", it gave us an opportunity to step up. It feels good to shed that skin and rise out of it.

I was out in L.A. and I had gone to film school and I was out here for a couple of years. For a lot of years, I was bartending and having a good time.

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.

I’d just like to be good at sports. I’m extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

Study and keep your attention on whatever it is you're going into. Build a good team. The team needs to know what it's doing They need to be people you can trust and people you can work well with.

You know I love a good family feud and I carry a big stick.

Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord.

Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.

As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.

Generosity makes at least two people feel good.

It's very good for us to say, as liberals, that we should be moved by everything, but the fact is that there's just so much competing for our attention.

I have adrenaline going and then focus on what I have to do and do it well. I know we'll have a good chance to win the match that way. I don't concern myself with the other team.

I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

I watch many, many, many independent films every year that you see once in a film festival and they're never heard of ever again. Many of them are very, very good.

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

I thought there was a good chance the fridge was possessed. It was subtle about it, but I had its number. I knew its ways. Oh yes.

Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.

My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody’s trying to kill me is a good day in my book.

As he closed the door he said over his shoulder, "Because you're a good lass." A heavy sigh. "And I'm no' a good man.

If your therapist asks if you have a quarter, then politely tells you to call someone who cares ... there's a good chance you're whining!

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

I am a voracious reader myself. I don't stick to one genre. My only criteria is that it's a good story. I try to bring that to my work because I think people can read your excitement about a story.

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.

50 Words of Snow just didn't seem to have the complications that quite a lot of albums have. It felt to me like it had this very good flow of energy.

I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we've had.

[Theresa May] is very sensible and I think that's a good thing at this point in time.

If I'm not feeling good, I load on jewelry. It gives me energy and makes me feel happy.

My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock...whatever you want to call it is OK with me.

No one need punish me for any wrongs, real or imagined. I am very good at doing it all by myself. I have the scars to prove it.

I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.

My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.

Sometimes you need to give people something that's for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it.

I felt like going out on the road and mixing it with music - which is something young people are always really interested in - would be a good way to proselytize. It was like feminist evangelism.

I know what a good question would be for an actor. What's your least favorite thing that you've ever heard an actor say about acting? Or about being in a movie?