Samuel Pepys Quotes
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
Jack Vance -
I try to get in people's heads. My job is to get the ball, so if I'm talking trash to an O-lineman or quarterback or receiver, and they start thinking about me, that's good, because they aren't thinking about the game anymore.
Malik Jackson -
What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -
Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
Aaron Patzer -
For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
Patrick Carman -
Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
Taylor Hanson Hanson
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Yogi Berra -
I try to do things that make me feel good. I go to yoga classes, drink a lot of water, eat healthily and keep things like alcohol and coffee to weekends. I don't overdo anything.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.
Eddie Marsan -
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
Van Wyck Brooks -
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
Nathalie Sarraute -
When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
M. Ward
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From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.
Karen Hesse -
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Saint Augustine -
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
Garrett Hardin -
Exercise is more important than diet for me because it's a twofer. It keeps me in good physical shape, and it relieves stress. And when you're a representative of the public, there's never a shortage of things to do.
Aaron Schock -
I feel very confident in my skiing. I know I have a good chance to win any race I start.
Ted Ligety -
I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in western Utah - was a really small school. It wasn't developed. We didn't have the funds to do anything like that, but I did act all through high school in films because Disney Channel would shoot movies out there.
Olesya Rulin
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One of my favourites is 'American Beauty.' Spacey is so good in that.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse -
I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further.
Donald Glover -
I try to put a positive spin on things.
Krysten Ritter -
I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.
Paula Poundstone -
If you don't judge my gold chains, I'll forget the iron chains.
LL Cool J -
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
Samuel Pepys