The Good Quotes

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

In art, the best is good enough.

Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled.

A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.

The reward for good work is more work.

Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.

Fathers be good to your daughters, daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers, so mothers be good to your daughters, too.

A good book written for children can be read by adults

Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.

We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show ['Good Times'] that knew Cabrini Green inside and out, and that's why we set it there.

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.

I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

I get good vibes from people. There is a thread of DNA that runs from the days that I was a young teenager to these days. It feels good to go back there.

I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.

I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.

I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.

Im a good girl at heart who just wants to have fun.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

Look at the limes in this drink, how they float. That's good news. Next time I'm on a boat, and it capsizes, I will reach for a lime. I'm saved by the buoyancy of citrus.

Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.

So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

We are a very colorful family. Everybody knows our mistakes. But I think that people can relate to all of our mistakes and all or good and bad points.

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

Education is the key. With a really good education, you have a much broader view of the world. Well-educated people can seek help for themselves. They can help others.

If you put your mind to doing whatever it is you want to do, good things can happen.

Just doing as well as you did last time is not good enough.

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.

I saw pure love when my son looked at me, and I knew that I had to make a good life for the two of us.

If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough.

Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.

A good book is an education of the heart.

Sometimes you have to experience the bad, so that you can learn to appreciate the good things that enter your life.

I will fly around the world doing good for the environment.

Good energy was never meant to be waisted on idiocy.

Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.

The only road to doing good shows, is doing bad shows.

Demons run when a good man goes to war.

All of us can improve the quality of our lives if we practice the art of self-care and train our minds to think thoughts that make us feel good.

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression.

If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters... nobody except me.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

God is good to me, even when life doesn’t feel good to me.

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.