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- Nov 07, 2020
Good Quotes
Quotes on what it means to be good.
This page rounds up quotes using 'good' in different senses - the simplicity behind good mathematical solutions, the self-importance that can come with good intellectual work, and a wry line about baseball being kinder after retirement. Related pages include Good Luck Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education and health were always matters of charity. You educated children and you helped the sick because they were good things to do, not because you were going to make money out of them. If you let the money-making principle, the profit-seeking motive, anywhere near education and health, things go bad.
- Fountain Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write in pen because it works. A fountain pen is no good for writing in the way I do because I'd have to decide, each time I stopped, how long I was likely to stop for in order to know whether or not to put the cap on. But I never know. So instead, I use a ballpoint - a Montblanc, to be precise - the most comfortably balanced pen I've ever found.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
You write differently in each book. It may appear to be similar to readers, but you're a different writer in each book because you haven't approached that subject before. And every subject brings out a different prose strain in you. Fundamentally, yes, you're contained as one writer. But you have various voices. Like a good actor.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.
- Nov 07, 2020
Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no reason why government should not be as efficient as any good business.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've got a good feel. A feel for... being able to walk with different people. Or for being able to look at people and think, 'Yeah, I might know what they want to wear.'
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.
- Arrogant
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- Nov 07, 2020
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dreamed: I am the fish whose flesh is eaten, and because I am fat, it is good.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to win, I've still got the fire in the belly to win, it's just the old utensils are not working as good as they used to.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020