The Good Quotes

I was just thinking about my own natural way of one-night stands: always wanting to be more attached to something. I'm not very good at detaching myself.

He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

I love to play real people... good people that I know the audience will get behind. It's the good people in the world that I gravitate to.

I never thought I'd be working with Sam [L.Jackson] .That's about as good as it gets.

Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

I've never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I've done them and they've just been not - they weren't better.

Women should do a lot more fighting. I don't think it's fair that we can't get into a good fight.

I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.

Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.

No one is anything but a shade of grey. It's good people making bad choices.

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

Don't ask me how I am,' I blurt. 'Please.' I want to keep feeling good. Just because the lights are on doesn't mean I have to look.

He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.

Being Canadian and from Winnipeg, I have the spirit of a dreamer because of the cold, and being in the basement thinking of possibilities of where else I can be in the world, in a good way!

It's not always so simple, Haven. Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.

It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.

The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work.

When we were young people, all we ever wanted was to be good working actors. We didn't think of fame or money because, honestly, money was never part of the dream.

Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.

With being a mother, I feel like you choose how you spend your time so much more carefully - which is a good thing.

Jared sidled up. He was not very good at sidling; he was more of a loomer.

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

I have no religion, but I can't escape being extremely Jewish ethnically - that is, culturally. In other words, I'm not religious, but I worry and I'm neurotic. And I'm very good with money.

I can see myself adopting. I'm not in a rush to do it. I'm 39, I know, but I do love kids, and I'm very good - I've got a lot of really good moves.

I happen to think that there are already tons of perfectly good babies out there already born.

Baba's words and actions have lit the lamp of love in the hearts of devotees and they will always remember him for the good things he has done.

There is a kitsch of death. For example, death transformed into sweet sleep: The 'good night, sweet prince' of the last scene of Hamlet.

I think that heartbreak is a good thing.

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

Angels will frequently - even when they're comforting us with good news - touch the awe of God's eternal presence and drive us to our knees before our God of glory.

Moslem: people who believe suicide is a good way to get laid.

A lot of good things can come from not expecting anything.

My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can.

I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all three.

I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.