A Good Sayings

#1. These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.

Steve Martin

#2. We are engaged in a good cause, fight under a good Captain, the victory is sure beforehand, and the prize is a crown - a crown of eternal life.

John Newton

#3. I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.

Leanne Pooley

#4. A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. A good dream, is better than a shitty reality.

Blackbeard

#6. I don't know why I get away with some things. But I'm not a misogynistic, racist person. Yet I do find those jokes funny, so I say them. And I try to say everything kind of in a good spirit.

Daniel Tosh

#7. Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

Elizabeth I

#8. Of capital importance is to have a good diet and exercise a lot.

Evelyn Lauder

#9. Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

Diana Wynne Jones

#10. You're either selfish, or you're a servant ... but fundamentally selfish people are terrible friends, terrible lovers, terrible spouses, terrible Christians, terrible parents. They leave a terrible legacy. Will you be selfish? Will you be a servant? ... A good marriage is a servant and a servant.

Mark Driscoll

#11. In practice, a large market will either lack a good starting point or it will be open to competition,

Peter Thiel

#12. When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.

Maimonides

#13. People will justify whatever for a good cause.

Julie Taymor

#14. When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.

Sue Sanders

#15. Isn't it odd? A guy bats .301 and has 35 homers. Then everybody starts to tell him what a good fielder he has become.

Dick Stuart

#16. I should be mortified, I know. But Alys is a good friend to me, and though she has her faults, she has a good and generous heart.(Emily)
And is that all that matters to you? (Draven)
Aye. People will always make mistakes, but in the end 'tis their heart that matters most. (Emily)

Kinley MacGregor

#17. What we have achieved is a good example of how the right policies deliver.

Rodrigo Rato

#18. Coyotes don't eat dachshunds," Johnson said. "Dachshunds were bred to go down badger tunnels and drag the badgers out by their ass. A good-sized dachshund could weigh thirty pounds and has jaws like a crocodile. Old Dixie would straight-out fuck up a coyote." "Didn't know that," Virgil said. -

John Sandford

#19. I started modeling because I thought it would be a good stepping stone for what I was studying (marketing), but since I started it I never had any intention to fail.

Kylie Bax

#20. Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

Charles De Lint

#21. A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.

Plato

#22. war. But I had a good uncle named Alex, who said, when life was most agreeable - and it could be just a pitcher of lemonade in the shade - he would say, "If this isn't nice, what is?

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#23. A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."

James Dobson

#24. I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I was born to a single mom. She was a wonderful woman, and she taught me to believe in myself, to work hard, play by the rules. She wanted me to get a good education, and she just told me that the best thing I could do is just study hard.

Raul Labrador

#25. I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.

Eric Ripert

#26. My fans are crazy, but in a good way. Very supportive, and some tweet me more like a 100 times a day. As for tour tales, I have a saying: 'What happens on tour stays on tour.'

Tiesto

#27. It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'

Viggo Mortensen

#28. It's nice to be known as a good player. But I want to be known as a good person, too.

John Wall

#29. My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

Renata Adler

#30. The essence of building your own brand. People having heard of you - and having a positive impression - before you've even met them. If you can create that effect, doors open for you. A close second, if that's not possible, is people getting a good impression of o very quickly when they Google you

Michael Ellsberg

#31. When someone is upset, it's not a good time to bring up your own problems.

Cynthia Lord

#32. By the time Jon Snow signed the parchment the Braavosi drew up, both of them were half-drunk and quite unhappy. Jon thought that a good sign.

George R R Martin

#33. But it is not incumbent on man to reward a bad action with a good one, or to return good for evil; and whenever it is done, it is a voluntary act, and not a duty. It

Thomas Paine

#34. There is lots of pressure to make a GOOD film. And not just a GOOD film but one that will somehow stand out in the sea of GOOD films.

Aurora Guerrero

#35. You know what they call a good looking girl in Philadelphia ... a tourist.

Jerry Lawler

#36. I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and
25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be
true.

Harry S. Truman

#37. You're a good man. (Rafael)
I guess we'll see in about five years, huh? If I die peacefully, then I'm good. If not, then we'll face each other again as predators. (Apollite)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#38. It was a good fight, friend.

L. Frank Baum

#39. It's important to build a personal brand because it's the only thing you're going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you've got to be a good person. You can't hide anything, and more importantly, you've got to be out there at some level.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#40. It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.

Al Yankovic

#41. Exactly what are you wanting to teach your children? -How to love and care for themselves, or how to neglect and abandon themselves? Self-sarifice is NOT setting a good example.

Miya Yamanouchi

#42. Watched as they flashed clips of people dancing, bartenders fixing whatever drink was en vogue, and a montage of interviews with delighted patrons. Maybe I really should try going out, it looks like fun ... but drunk people always look like they're having a good time.

Amber Lynn Natusch

#43. Beckett stood in his office dressed to the nines: his best suit, cufflinks, amazing shoes, and expensive sunglasses. Underneath he had so many weapons that a good speed bump would blow him off the face of the earth.

Debra Anastasia

#44. It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.

Charles Spurgeon

#45. A serious-minded man enjoys a good laugh now and then.

Albert Einstein

#46. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

Joseph Addison

#47. The first essential in any book is that it have something significant to say --a book that leaves the reader with bigger ideas than when he began reading - that stimulates his thinking, stretches his mind, deepens his feelings. A good book sticks to your ribs.

Rebecca Caudill

#48. I love a good pop song. I have no problem with the concept of doing that sort of thing. For me, it's usually what I'm inspired by, what I'm thinking about.

Jon Foreman

#49. I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

Alberto Moravia

#50. I have a good poker face because I am half dead inside.

Colson Whitehead

#51. No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

Harry Houdini

#52. No man has a good enough memory
to make a successful liar.

Abraham Lincoln

#53. It's funny what memory does, isn't it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.

Molly O'Keefe

#54. he was a good leader.

Rick Riordan

#55. Being a good, innovative librarian means taking a humanistic stance toward policy, decision-making, and experimentation. It means focusing on the heart.

Michael Stephens

#56. There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.

Julia Quinn

#57. I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke.

Julian Clary

#58. Tapping melons with your knuckles is a good way of making your selection in the store, but apparently it's frowned upon at the strip club.

Brad Wilkerson

#59. The word "evangelist" means someone who spreads good news. Studying the impacts of climate change as I do, it's hard to come up with good news. In many ways I feel more like a Cassandra or a Jeremiah than a good-news evangelist.

Katharine Hayhoe

#60. Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.

Osamu Dazai

#61. If you are a leader or someone who works for the interest of a community, first make sure that you understand the interest of the people who make up that community. In this way, you will have a good chance of minimizing, perhaps, avoiding the us versus them mentality.

Duop Chak Wuol

#62. Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.

Trevor Dunn

#63. Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.

Gary Kemp

#64. Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man-he made a good decision.

Donald Trump

#65. All problems exist in the absence of a good conversation.

Thomas Leonard

#66. There are differences in the businesses themselves, but the fundamentals are the same: give customers a good experience, charge them a reasonable price, listen to them, and treat them with respect.

Ronnie Apteker

#67. A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

Louise Penny

#68. You look at stats for a guy who is a pretty good linebacker, he'll make 100 tackles. You make 100, you're averaging seven or eight tackles a game. If you play every down, that's a good number.

Jon Beason

#69. Any time you can take a book a little beyond the realm of pure entertainment, I think it's a good thing. But I don't really have it on my to-do list when I write a book. It just evolves naturally during the process of immersing yourself in a subject.

Mary Roach

#70. If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#71. You missed the morning's festivities," Bo said to Adamat. "You call torturing a man 'festivities'?" Adamat asked. "I'm not a good person," Bo said.

Brian McClellan

#72. A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

Kenneth Tynan

#73. He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.

Bob Dylan

#74. A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

Alanis Morissette

#75. Adultery can indeed be pleasant, and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.

Robert Farrar Capon

#76. The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

J.C. Ryle

#77. {Summertime she speaks of winter, she eats ham, but speaks of beef, got a good man but, flirts with another. She might as well go to hell, cause she ain't gonna be happy in heaven either!}

Nancy B. Brewer

#78. I think of basset hounds whenever I turn on my computer because I have photos of them. And if I'm lucky, and I see one on the street, I know it's going to be a good day. They really are like a four-leaf clover.

Julie Klausner

#79. God, you're tight," Ben groaned.
"That was a good groan?" Beatriz asked.
"The best groan. I could live and die inside you.

Tiffany Reisz

#80. A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one.

Miller Huggins

#81. I think I bring the songs that aren't about me or related to me to life. It's like the song 'How Do I Let A Good Man Down?' Let me tell you, I didn't write that song - because if I have a good man, I ain't going to let him down.

Sharon Jones

#82. I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that talent, and set up the laws and the finanical system to let me do what I love doing-and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is help pay for all that.

Warren Buffett

#83. The merger of globalization and the I.T. revolution means new products are being phased in and out so fast that companies cannot afford to wait until the end of the year to figure out whether a team leader is doing a good job.

Thomas Friedman

#84. Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.

Brendan Dooling

#85. Regardless of the situation, don't let the bastards win ... and have no regrets ... for it will be a good day!
-Richard Wakinyan (Martian Fleet Commander)

R.G. Risch

#86. If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

Teri Garr

#87. We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time.

Jermaine Stewart

#88. Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.

Patrick Demarchelier

#89. There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

Richard P. Feynman

#90. I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight A's.

Lucy Hale

#91. They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

Bill Hicks

#92. Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

Paul Newman

#93. I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.

Cecily McMillan

#94. And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you can.

Tobias Wolff

#95. We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?

Richard Branson

#96. There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.

Shirley Chisholm

#97. I thought I knew you," she snapped. "I thought you were a good man, down deep"
Cett shook his head. "The good men are all dead, Allrianne. They died inside that city.

Brandon Sanderson

#98. Here are some funny songs, there are some songs that we didn't even remember. I heard this song that Ringo is singing, I still don't know the title of it, but it is got the most amazing lyrics and it's a quite a good production. And quite a good tun

George Harrison

#99. She made him feel odd - in a good way. Drunk on nothing. High on air.

Bethany-Kris

#100. A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don't want to walk you.

Yogi Berra