- Night
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I remember watching Morgan Freeman when he did the two Alex Cross movies, and he's so confident that he's going to knock the scene dead. And I'm really confident that I can tell a good story now, so I just don't worry about things.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
All cult leaders are very good at supplying people with what they want and are missing in their lives, so they feel loved and that they belong.
- Football Match
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was at drama school, I was totally broke, and a lot of my mates had jobs and were financially very good to me, so if, for example, I take them away on a trip to a football match in Europe, it means that I can pay them back a bit.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
Richard Armitage is very good at the old horse riding because of course he did it in 'Robin Hood,' so he's very good at that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020