Good Quotes

• To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Keys
  • Novelists
  • Fluidity

• To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity. Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Believe
  • Why

• I've always thought that I'm kind of a cross between a young Bill Clinton and Lyle Lovett. And I just want to say I'm proud of that. Those are two good looking guys.

  

  James Badge Dale
  • Good
  • Proud

• If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.

  

  January Jones
  • Good
  • Believe

• A good father and a good outlaw can't settle inside the same man.

  

  Alessandro Aleotti
  • Good
  • Father

• Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

  

  Charlotte Whitton
  • Good
  • Words

• I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.

  

  Joan Lunden
  • Time
  • Children
  • America

• And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

  

  Dweezil Zappa
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dad

• When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.

  

  Will Champion Coldplay
  • Good
  • Write
  • Level

• Oh rainy day woman,I've never seem to see you for the good times or the sunshine.You have been a friend of mine, rainy day woman.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Sunshine

• We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's house. A group of us got together over at Kelsey's and just read through some plays just for the fun of it. That may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but we had a good time.

  

  David Hyde Pierce
  • Time
  • May
  • Together

• I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Good
  • Success
  • Teacher

• Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but they loath it ever after.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Why
  • Rest

• I'd like to be seen as a normal, attractive person with good values.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Person
  • Values
  • Normal

• My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was 'carrion,' before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things.

  

  Meg Wolitzer
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Words

• It is not 'scientism' to concede the objectivity and precision of good science, any more than it is history worship to concede that Napoleon did once rule in France and the Holocaust actually happened. Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • History
  • Science
  • Fear

• I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Ignorance
  • Naturally
  • Armed

• A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place?

  

  Alexis Stewart
  • Life
  • World
  • Legacy

• My life is nothing but pressure. All pressure. This pressure is like a heaviness. It's always on top of me, this heaviness. It's always there since I'm a kid. Other people wake up in the morning, 'A new day! Ah, up and at 'em!' I wake up, the heaviness is waiting for me nice. Sometimes I even talk to it. I say [adopts cheerful voice] 'Hi, heaviness!' and the heaviness looks back at me, [in an ominous growl] 'Today you're gonna get it good. You'll be drinking early today.'

  

  Jack Roy
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I think I'm always running away from somewhere, and to me, theatre's always felt like a good place to run away to.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Good
  • Running
  • Theatre

• For most of the people who have a lot of success, it's because they were the ones who didn't quit. It's not necessarily because it was just laid out for them. It won't apply to all cases, but I think it's pretty good advice.

  

  Perry Chen
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Success

• It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • Work
  • Job
  • Pretty

• Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

  

  Asia Argento
  • Remember
  • Child
  • Actor

• The law of God, and also the way to life, is written in our hearts: It lieth in no man's supposition and knowing, nor in any historical opinion, but in a good will and well-doing.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • Life
  • God
  • Law

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