Top 100 Any Good Sayings
#1. I don't think there is any good answer to the question why shouldn't gays and lesbians who want to serve their country be allowed to do it.
John Bolton
#2. With any good projects, I feel like the off-screen chemistry factors on-screen. It's great when you don't have to force it, but when it's not there you better focus on getting there, because as we live with these characters we spend more time with one another than we do our families at home.
Aldis Hodge
#3. I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
Richard Russo
#4. It doesn't do anyone any good to live one life and hide another.
Jameson Currier
#6. Where is Alia?' she asked.
'Out doing what any good Fremen child should be doing in such times,' Paul said. 'She's killing enemy wounded ...
Frank Herbert
#8. I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.
Rashida Jones
#9. For a long time I'd been fed on the wheat of The Imitation. It was the only book which did me any good, as I hadn't discovered the treasures of the Gospels. I knew every chapter by heart. I was never without this little book.
John Beevers
#10. I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would.
Amber Benson
#11. A distressingly large portion of the world doesn't do you any good whatsoever.
Charles Frazier
#12. Julius," she starts, "it's not about being a bad guy." Her voice is soft. "I can make any good guy bad for the evening." This
Belle Aurora
#13. One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
Ted Danson
#14. The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#15. Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.
Orison Swett Marden
#16. Any good groupie loves the music so much it's part of the bloodstream
Pamela Des Barres
#17. You are dehydrated," I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.
Robert Penn Warren
#18. I knew I wanted to direct since I was a kid. That was something I was always fascinated by and wanted to experience and see if I would be any good at it.
Fred Savage
#19. Being a professional writer is a lot like being a hooker. You'd better find out if you're any good at it before you start charging for it.
Sharyn McCrumb
#20. Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.
Samuel West
#21. A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
Bertolt Brecht
#22. People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.
Amanda Hocking
#23. The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is insecurity, the fear that everything could be taken away at any moment.
Jeff Koons
#24. Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.
Adriana Trigiani
#25. I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?'
Amy Poehler
#26. People like to be challenged. Most people that I know who are any good at life like to be challenged.
Charlie Rose
#27. It's one of those things where if I do a movie, I don't even know if I'm any good. So, I may do one and it sucks and I'm a horrible actor, and I'll never do another one.
Jason Aldean
#28. Any good history begins in strangeness. The past should not be comfortable. The past should not a familar echo of the present, for if it is familar why revist it? The past should be so strange that you wonder how you and people you know and love could come from such a time.
Richard White
#29. I do love singing. I wouldn't say I'm any good, but I definitely love it - especially jazz singing.
Emilia Clarke
#30. The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared.
Robin S. Sharma
#31. I had hardly begun to read
I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can't
you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write
W.S. Merwin
#32. A lot of these roles that I feel like I've had some sort of impact, or that have had an effect on me, have always been with directors who have the time to somehow get to know me. Any good director's going to be curious about who it is that's coming aboard.
Elias Koteas
#33. In closing, I'm not going to try to warn you about the dangers of messing around with the paranormal. I know it won't do any good. Most people (And I speak of myself here too.) have to have that proverbial brick to hit them in the
Melissa George
#34. I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.
Patrick Stump
#35. Whatever bliss we think we're going to find, we may find it in brief flashes, fleeting moments that come and go. There's an impossibility to nailing down any good feeling.
Harold Ramis
#37. If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.
Hannah More
#38. Don't make me come out there and spray you, blanco.
I point at my one eye.
Better have some sharpshooter fucking aim you want that shit to do any good.
Charlie Huston
#39. There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.
Henry David Thoreau
#40. Gratitude is most treasured when it is unexpected. When we expect, even demand gratitude, we treat it simply as payment due for some service we rendered and we squeeze any good feeling out of it.
Michael Josephson
#41. I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.
Levon Helm
#42. Any good thing is less good the more any human being lays claim to it.
Marilynne Robinson
#43. I covet you like any good demon would." His other hand tightened at the back of my neck. "And my desire for you increases every waking second in a way that should frighten me, but really just excites me. But most of all, I love you,
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#44. Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.
Ray Charles
#45. All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.
Rebecca West
#46. It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.
W. Kamau Bell
#47. It won't do you any good to run if you're running the wrong way. I've developed a new philosophy ... I only dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz
#48. Hell, your kid is fucking my wife, and your wife is fucking me. [ ... ]
Not that she's any good, Zane said, looking at Georgia, and when she made a little cry of protest, he added, Hell Georgia, even Jell-O moves when you eat it.
Jennifer Crusie
#49. We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's hard for me to think of any good fiction writers who don't also read poetry.
Edward Hirsch
#50. A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.
Kate Greenaway
#52. Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.
Edwin Morgan
#55. It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
Ray Bradbury
#56. Running away from love is never any good at all, to our sort. It only deepens the feeling, and it's better to stay and wear it down.
Rachel Ferguson
#57. That's not necessary. I'm doing what any good friend would do, out of loyalty and Lunar patriotism and--"
"I'll buy you a new pair of shoes."
"Sold.
Marissa Meyer
#58. I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
Claude Monet
#59. One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm not any good at it.
Lennie James
#60. Sometimes I do movies that aren't any good, or sometimes I might not be any good in them, or sometimes they don't do very well.
Michael Keaton
#61. I did what any good rat would do. I bit down on the guard's hand until I tasted blood.
Maria V. Snyder
#62. Southerners don't gossip; Southerners pray for one other. Of course, you have to know the details of the sinner's sins to get any good praying done, then you have to recruit others to pray, and they need the details too. It's called Prayer Circle.
Gretchen Archer
#63. Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#64. Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.
Jane Porter
#65. No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
Gabriel Byrne
#66. They had sold everything that was any good, and there wasn't anything to eat anymore, and still the people went on fucking all the time.
Fucking was how babies were made.
Kurt Vonnegut
#67. No one had forewarned me, however, that if you live abroad any good while, the notion of home is permanently compromised.
Andrew Solomon
#68. I wasn't any good at romnace. I was a total nerd. My thing is, I was just too romantic. I was the romantic goofball. I wasn't cynical enough or harsh enough. I cared too much, so I always made a fool out of myself.
Nicolas Cage
#69. Like any good novel, it lulled him into an almost tranquil state of awareness before it jolted him - it caught him completely by surprise.
John Irving
#70. Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio.
Chick Hearn
#71. Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.
Margaret Millar
#72. I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'
Kurt Vonnegut
#73. It's moments like those that make me want to slap him, not that slapping him would do any good, but it would make me feel better.
Rick Yancey
#75. For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.
Pope Gregory VII
#76. Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones.
Kerry King
#77. It doesn't do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything.
James Sinegal
#78. Things happen, and you can't make them unhappen. You don't get do-overs, you can't roll back the clock, and the only thing you can change, and the only thing it does any good to worry about, is how you let them affect you.
Jennifer Weiner
#79. There are four ways to manage stress. There's drugs, there's alcohol, there's sex, and there's doughnuts. I go with sex and doughnuts. I tried the other two and it wasn't any good. You being in a dry spell, you might have to rely on doughnuts.
Janet Evanovich
#80. This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write about what goes in my life and what goes on around me. So that's what I chose to do.
Sune Rose Wagner
#81. I've learned some things, and one of them is this...beating yourself up won't do you any good. Don't make a bad situation worse.
Ernie Lindsey
#82. Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have to sacrifice creativity to have business success. To the contrary, great art requires discipline.
Paula Wagner
#83. As I wrote in Pastrix I, like any good middle-class mainline Protestant, tend to arrogantly look down my theological nose at talk of demon possession as superstitious snake-handling nonsense, as though it's the spiritual equivalent of a monster truck rally.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#84. Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification.
Robert Gottlieb
#85. The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.
Dan Jenkins
#86. Behind that rough facade, customers drank beer and danced, activities that to any good Southern Baptist invoked the Devil himself.
Tom Robbins
#87. The rise of the citizen review site is a sobering development. No longer are you on top of the mountain, blasting your marketing message down to the masses through your megaphone. All of a sudden, the masses are conversing with one another. If your service or product isn't any good, they'll out you.
David Pogue
#88. But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.
Ernest Hemingway,
#89. Sin is not merely wrong doing; sin is essentially wrong adoring. Sin is the fastening of our hearts on any good, treasure, or security in life that replaces the good, treasure, and security of God.
Tony Reinke
#90. The mantra of any good security engineer is: 'Security is a not a product, but a process.' It's more than designing strong cryptography into a system; it's designing the entire system such that all security measures, including cryptography, work together.
Bruce Schneier
#91. Reasoning was merely the servant of the passions, and when the servant failed to find any good arguments, the master did not change his mind.
Jonathan Haidt
#92. I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. 'In this town it wouldn't do any good,' he explained. 'I happen to be a chain breather.'
Robert Sylvester
#93. Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.
Billy Corgan
#94. A man may possess the disposition without its producing any good result.
Aristotle.
#95. Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.
Dick Cheney
#96. The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.
Theodore Roosevelt
#97. I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do
make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.
Stephen King
#98. Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.
Jerry Saltz
#99. You never do any good until you get into some trouble.
Arthur Miller
#100. There aren't any GOOD guys. You realize that, don't you? I mean: there aren't EVIL guys, and INNOCENT guys. It's just - it's just... It's just a bunch of guys.
Jake Kasdan
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