Good Quotes

• In contemplating what to do with my life, I felt like I had two possible paths: one was to move to New York and work in a design house; the other was to move to Africa and deliver food aid. That's when the idea of the FEED bag came to me. It's for those who want to put their consumer dollars to good use.

  

  Lauren Bush
  • Life
  • Work
  • House

• The great thing about Nashville back in the day was that the old guys hung out where the young guys were. The established writers like Harlan Howard and Jack Clement gave us encouragement and passed the guitar, you know? Chet Atkins let me sit in on his sessions. Everybody was good to us, and everybody loved the music.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• I have lived in this city my whole life and have seen the way gentrification has changed it. I'm not necessarily against transplants, as 75 percent of my good friends, roommate, and boyfriend are not native New Yorkers.

  

  Nora Lum
  • Life
  • Friends
  • City

• I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.

  

  Jim Jarmusch
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Character

• In mainland China, there are many good theaters - sometimes better than Hong Kong.

  

  Andrew Lau
  • Good

• You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.

  

  Lisa See
  • Choices
  • Sound
  • Plans

• We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Men
  • Moral

• It's not without its flaws - it's still the South and the Bible Belt - but Atlanta is one of those cities that's really good at uniting people.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • People
  • Good
  • Bible

• I have yet to meet very many people in the press who are really, truly interested in writing a good story or getting at the truth. Most press people, when they come into an article, have an angle that they want already, so they need points to support that angle, whatever the angle may be.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • People
  • Writing
  • May

• I think things that are really, really not good are easy to see. But films that are decent can either be made good or great based on the execution. At the end of the day, it's always a crapshoot about the execution, the level of taste, in any department.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Good
  • Great

• I really like to go for the essence of things - the most beautiful parts of things - of human beings or of music. If there are things in there that are getting in the way and complicating it, it's just not good for me.

  

  Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead
  • Good
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• I wandered along to the chemistry labs, more or less on the rebound, and asked about becoming a research student. It was the '60s, a time of university expansion: the doors were open, and a 2:1 was good enough to get me in.

  

  John Sulston
  • Time
  • Good

• I know there is a hope in religion; I know there is faith and I know there is prayer about religion and necessary to it, but God is most glorified when there is peace on earth and good will towards men

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • God
  • Men
  • Hope

• I know that Wes Craven feels watching horror films does have a psychological effect, in a good way. It is very cathartic. He might be right about that.

  

  Marley Shelton
  • Good

• Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

  

  Plutarch
  • Good

• I just am not good at math.

  

  Phil McGraw
  • Good
  • Math

• I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Audience

• The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Help
  • Stop
  • Question

• We're used to boy meets girl, boy likes girl, instant attraction on TV. But you throw a son in there, you throw a marriage in there, and you've got some really good character stuff.

  

  Matt Passmore
  • Character
  • Girl
  • Marriage

• Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I've met with, and I've met them all: It's never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

  

  Joe Biden
  • World
  • America
  • Fighting

• At the beginning, Edo was a photographer, and I was more of a talent scout and doing styling and modelling. Then all of a sudden, in 1977, he gave me a Polaroid camera, and I discovered that instead of having to go to a lab and develop the film, I could just take a click and get a picture! It was genius, and I was very good at manipulating it.

  

  Maripol
  • Good
  • Beginning
  • Picture

• Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

  

  Eric S. Raymond
  • Different
  • Technology
  • Environment

• It's good. We've struggled all year here, especially scoring runs and getting anything going. We had some pretty good, enthusiastic crowds the last two days, and it was good to put on a good show for them.

  

  Bob Melvin
  • Crowds
  • Runs
  • Enthusiastic

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