Very Good Quotes

Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.

Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.

I dont call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I dont.

Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

Boys,' she says, 'just aren't very good at being afraid.

It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.

Our intuitions, as humans, aren't always very good. Changes that happen really suddenly, on the strength of the most minor of input, can be deeply confusing.

My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all?

I have a very good memory for scripts. I can watch a show I like once, then remember about 90% of the script. But ask me who was in it, and I wouldn't have a clue.

"How did you - " "Fool your guards? They're not very good. They forgot to check the ceiling for spiders." Valek grinned. His angular face softened.

All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.'

Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.

I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.

I am going to turn over a new life and am going to be a very good girl and be obedient to Isa Keith, here there is plenty of gooseberries which makes my teeth watter.

There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player.

It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir.

I still think I have the speed and the variations also to win the matches, but its very good competition and also a great challenge for me too.

I'm just damseling mostly. I'm not very good with a gun.

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.

If you are 8 hours a day in a job you hate, you're not going to be a very good spouse; it can contribute to chemical dependency, financial mismanagement.

To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

I am very good at groveling.

Night is a very good and very close friend of a writer!

The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.

Jeb Bush is very good on immigration, he's very good on education. He's a smart guy.

I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.

A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.

There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.

When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.

Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.

I'm actually very good with Home Depot-handy type of paintwork.

There are writers I know and respect who are very good about what's outside, and not too hot about what's inside.

Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had very good circumstances.

If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

I like to take a break, but at the same time, I think most actors are not very good at sitting around doing nothing because we like to work.

When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed.

Walking is very good for writers. There's something fundamentally useful about not talking to anybody, not looking at a screen, and being in nature - even if that nature is an urban environment.

I'm very good at living out of a suitcase. I love dressing up every morning. It feels like a costume, in some ways.

Bush is a nice fellow who gives very good parties. I just wish someone would find him a better job than running the country.

[Max Askeli] started this very good magazine [The Reporter]. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there.

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.

I don't know if I am a very good politician. I'm not a good hater.

I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.

I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the director and the necessity of the actor to push back and find their own voice.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.