Good Quotes

• If anything gets in the way of me being a good mom or wife, I simply say no.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Good
  • Wife
  • Mom

• Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Business
  • Alone
  • Tears

• I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.

  

  Genevieve Valentine
  • Age
  • Beginning
  • Sun

• One thing I've learned about the NBA is that you can have one good year, but you've always got to be progressing and working and making yourself better.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Good
  • NBA
  • Progressing

• Books cannot always please, however good;Minds are not ever craving for their food.

  

  George Crabbe
  • Good
  • Food

• I'm a band leader and substitute teacher, and then one day they bring me into a music class, and I'm like, 'Wait a minute, I know this stuff.' And the principal is like, 'Just throw the video in and call it a day,' and I'm like, 'That's not good enough. I want these kids to know what it's like to have a gig and all that kind of stuff.'

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Band

• My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity.

  

  Kym Whitley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Parents

• A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.

  

  Fred Allen
  • Good
  • Star

• And the good news is that you've got a brain. You do! Honest! I saw it with my own eyes, thus disproving the navy's stubborn contention that soldiers have nothing whatsoever inside their skulls. I shall write a paper for the Review. I'll be famous! Brain discovered in a soldier.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Eyes
  • Brain
  • Famous

• I wouldn't change being married. It was good for me, and I was happy for a period of time, and I learned a lot about myself.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Change

• When you dig in, two big titans clashing, what good is that? It's not good for either of us; it's not good for the industry.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Good

• I still feel I am that 14-year-old kid, hungry and trying to find a way through life. That's what I'm trying to develop, trying to be good at something through boxing. But I feel like that young kid who's trying and trying.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Boxing

• Whether it's theatre or TV or film, you're hoping you're going to bump into a writer that's got a bit of honour in him, that wants to tell a good story and is able to tell it well.

  

  Liam Cunningham
  • Good
  • Theatre

• I always question myself, but I always say, 'Come on, we can do something good.'

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Good
  • Question

• I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • Good
  • Fear

• Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Thinking
  • Fighting
  • Audience

• However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

  

  Buddha
  • Good
  • Words

• Auto-tune is good to keep your notes intact, but it doesn't do much for the feel of your voice.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Good
  • Auto

• Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

  

  Knute Rockne
  • Good
  • Failure

• But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

  

  Andy Hertzfeld
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Leadership

• My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Men
  • May
  • Golf

• There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we've got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Great
  • Live
  • Bad

• Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy.

  

  Ludivine Sagnier
  • Good
  • Long
  • Happy

• The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Good
  • Different
  • Perspective

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