Decent Quotes

• You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.

  

  Judy Garland
  • World
  • Knows
  • Deals

• If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Work
  • Different
  • Society

• I took the LSAT. My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well, then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard... But it was just mediocre. I can get into law school.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • School
  • Mediocre
  • Harvard

• I love Seth Rogen's line in which he talks about how you can be both a genius and decent at the same time.

  

  Michael Stuhlbarg
  • Genius
  • Decent

• You can take a bad singer and make them sound decent; you couldn't do that in the past... With things like Pro Tools and all the other things you have available; like auto tune, and pitch correction you can make someone who can't sing into someone who can.

  

  Michael Sweet Boston
  • Past
  • Sound
  • Singers

• There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • People
  • Limits
  • Decent

• We may be smaller, we may be small in number, we may have a lot less money, but there are a growing number of people who are sick and tired of the campaigns to destroy decent people, such as George Bush, Sarah Palin, Clarence Thomas, Paula Jones, Linda Tripp, Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • People
  • Money
  • May

• We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Night
  • Light
  • Sleep

• I sincerely believe the word "relationships" is the key to the prospect of a decent world [and life]. It seems abundantly clear that every problem you will have - in your family, in your business, in our nation, or in this world - is essentially a matter of relationships, of interdependence.

  

  Clarence Francis
  • Relationships
  • Key
  • Prospect

• People will say what they want to say, and it's okay. And my life will go on, and I need to focus on my life. So, do I need to defend that I'm a decent woman? I sure hope I don't. I know I am.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Life
  • Hope

• If nothing else, I'm a decent quote.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Ifs
  • Decent

• The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.

  

  David McCord
  • Students
  • Teaches
  • Standing

• Aaron Cruden and Beauden Barrett have both been decent, but Dan Carter takes it on to a different level, and he kicks his goals better than both of them.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Decent
  • Aaron Cruden
  • Beauden Barrett

• The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

  

  Errol Flynn
  • Expected
  • Playboy
  • Chaps

• I don't particularly fall in love with my own compositions, but some of them are decent.

  

  George Benson
  • Love
  • Fall
  • Compositions

• If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard as writing a game, though. If you discount the purely visual pop-up parts, a book is made almost entirely of words. As a novelist, you just need to think of a few decent strings of words and then fill the other 98% of the book with more or less random descriptions of things and exclamation points.

  

  Erik Wolpaw
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.

  

  Sean Bean
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Compassionate

• Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Question
  • Genuine
  • Decent

• Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all, that they'd remain true to themselves.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • People
  • Thinking
  • True

• Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Family
  • Eye
  • Cooks

• If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest, if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then it is my conviction that in the future as in the past the Lord God will always help us. In the long run He never leaves decent folk in the lurch. Often He may test them, He may send trials upon them, but in the long run He always lets His sun shine upon them once more and at the end He gives them His blessing.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Way
  • Decent
  • Pursue

• A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

  

  Ruggiero Ricci
  • Sound
  • Pieces
  • Piano

• You know, even in the economic downturn in Alberta, there are restaurants in Calgary, and even in Canmore up the mountain, that cannot open for lunch because they cannot find staff. And they cannot find staff because there's nowhere for those people to live. And so safe and decent housing, market housing, subsidized housing, the whole bit, we really, really need to have our heads on straight on this, and we don't yet.

  

  Naheed Nenshi
  • People
  • Mountain
  • Economic

• I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.

  

  Rumi
  • Kind
  • Decent
  • Came Back

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