Top 100 As Good Quotes
#1. Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.
Marge Piercy
#2. But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents taught us that in order to succeed, we 'had to be twice as good as white folks.' We were constantly being prepared to enter a world dominated by whites.
Junius Williams
#3. Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.
Mike Wilson
#4. I've been thinking. Her eyebrows rose, but he was used to surprise whenever he claimed an idea. Even when his ideas were as good as theirs, they always remembered how deliberate he was in thinking of them.
Robert Jordan
#5. Sam's a - pardon my French - chicken-shit-paper-thin liar whose word is as good as a slaughterhouse bird promising golden eggs." If
Anne McAneny
#6. Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead.
Rick Owens
#7. A consultant is only as good as their last project.
Jon Taffer
#8. Actually, it wasn't bad," Claire said, surprisingly. "Mullein leaves are really very nice; quite as good as two-ply bathroom tissue. And in the winter or indoors, it was usually a bit of damp rag; not very sanitary, but comfortable enough.
Diana Gabaldon
#9. I've always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
Ringo Starr
#10. Wesco had a market capitalization of $40 million when we bought it [in the early 1970s]. It's $2 billion now. It's been a long slog to a perfectly respectable outcome - not as good as Berkshire Hathaway or Microsoft, but there's always someone in life who's done better.
Charlie Munger
#11. It felt almost enjoyable, like gnawing on a cuticle: You know you should stop, that it doesnt really feel as good as you think, but you cant quit grinding it away.
Gillian Flynn
#12. You'll have to turn your back.
He turned slowly. The view from the back was just as good as the view from the front. I could practically hear Lucy snickering in the back of my head. I might be the vampire daughter, but she was the one who was a bad influence. No question.
Alyxandra Harvey
#13. There is a tendency for writers to be most exciting by whatever they just wrote. Sometimes that excitement is warranted. Sometimes on further listen it's not as good as something they did a couple of years ago, but it's just not in their sights at that particular time.
Stone Gossard
#14. That's good advice for any young person to remember who aspires to leadership in corporate or public life. Develop a thick skin when it comes to the press. Remember you're never as bad-or as good-as the press says you are.
William Schreyer
#15. I think comics can be the basis for great films, but I think the focus of such a project should be on making the film as good as possible, not on painstakingly replicating the comic.
Adrian Tomine
#16. I'd like to be remembered. I'd like to think that someday two guys will be talking in a bar and one of them will say something like, 'Yeah, he's a good shortstop, but he's not as good as ole Ripken was.'
Cal Ripken Jr.
#17. What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment.
Swami Vivekananda
#18. Dick Enberg is still around and still being as good as he ever was.
Jim McKay
#19. A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.
Anatole Broyard
#20. You lose anyone, there's no replacing them. What you need to get is that's precious, you get to keep that, you don't want to replace it. That doesn't mean you can't find something else just as good.
Kristen Ashley
#21. Every shot feels like the first shot of the day. If I'm on the range hitting shot after shot, I can hit them just as good as I did when I was 30. But out on the course, your body changes between shots. You get out of the cart, and you've got this 170-yard 5-iron over a bunker, and it goes about 138.
Lee Trevino
#22. Nothing is as good as it seems, and nothing is as bad as it seems. Somewhere in between lies realty.
Lou Holtz
#23. No man's credit is ever as good as his money.
E.W. Howe
#25. Never thought reality could get better than one's dreams. Thanks to a women though, one would rather stay awake becaues one's dreams aint remotely close to being as good as his reality.
Morena Baloyi
#26. I was bullied at school for my red hair; today I still come out fighting hard. I give as good as I get. In business, it's about finding solutions, not being rolled over.
John Caudwell
#27. But no, he had to smell as good as he tasted, earthy and natural, like sex in the woods. He'd make a fantastic air freshener for some guy's man cave.
Ione, Larissa (2014-12-16). Revenant (Demonica) (p. 71). Grand Central Publishing. Kindle Edition.
Larissa Ione
#28. The thing is, I never see my characters as psychopaths. I see them as really crippled victims who just happen to do bad things. And I never see them as bad guys; I see them as darker characters. I never see anything as good or bad; it's more light or dark, and the in-between is the grey.
Michael Eklund
#29. A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.
Elon Musk
#30. Only drugs make you feel as good as people in TV ads appear to be.
Hakim Bey
#31. In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going through with it, and it had the added benefit of not entailing risk. Between prison and no prison, no prison was clearly preferable.
Jonathan Franzen
#33. Portland's as good a place as any. The food is good, the people are nice. I'm in love with it.
Sasha Roiz
#34. My dad is my best friend, my father, and my boss. When I do something that is exciting and he likes it, it feels three times as good as you can imagine.
David Lauren
#35. Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.
Julius Charles Hare
#36. You were the best birthday present I ever got."
"Thank you."
"I wanted to give you something back, but I've got to warn you that it's not half as good as my present. Even so, you have to keep it."
"All right."
He draped the pink bow around his neck and grinned. "Happy birthday, Rosebud.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#38. I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it.
Anita Shreve
#39. It is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, not knowing whither we are going, regarding as bad what is good, regarding as good what is bad, and ever in entire ignorance.
Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
#40. The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
Socrates
#41. Life is a series of tests; but if you pass your tests, you look back upon them as good experiences.
Peace Pilgrim
#42. Obey and pay attention to everything I am ordering you to do, so that things will go well with you and with your descendants after you forever, as you do what Yahweh sees as good and right. - Deuteronomy 12:28
Paul Nison
#43. So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.
Andy Warhol
#44. I'll see you soon, I think as I fall, hoping she can hear me. It's as good a last thought as any, and I hold it close like a light in the darkness.
Rebecca Harris
#45. Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.
Charles Warren Stoddard
#46. I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be my own. I think I've got the seed of it and, what's more, that I can make movies that are different and informed by my taste.
Jack Nicholson
#47. Do you treat strangers as good as you do your friends or church family? (Acts 10:34)
Amanda Penland
#48. The Prince of Shadow is no longer a prince, dear. He's as good as king of this realm.
Kresley Cole
#49. I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
Margaret Mitchell
#50. Remind me never to piss you off ... Are you as good at being a friend as you are an enemy?
Laurell K. Hamilton
#51. Harry - you're a great wizard, you know."
"I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him.
"Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!
J.K. Rowling
#52. The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good.
John Stuart Mill
#53. The country would be far better if the population were half as interested in keeping their minds in as good condition as they tried to keep their bodies.
John Saul
#54. Tonight, I want to take you home. Peel you out of this incredibly sexy dress while licking you to see if you taste as good as you smell. I'm gonna fuck you and make love to you. Often. Give you multiple reasons why we should do this, before I give you the reason we shouldn't.
Scarlett Cole
#55. A man isn't as good as his word, he's as good as his Actions.
James Miller
#57. I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.
Vidal Sassoon
#58. Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists.
Susan RoAne
#59. I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to write something, I start reading what I think of as good literature. I read things with wonderful language.
Patricia MacLachlan
#60. A good decision cannot guarantee a good outcome. All real decisions are made under uncertainty. A decision is therefore a bet, and evaluating it as good or not must depend on the stakes and the odds, not on the outcome.
Ward Edwards
#61. Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
Mel Brooks
#62. The thought of abandoning his friend to save himself was never an option. He collapsed, pushing even closer to Raimie. Pressing his lips against his friend's ear, he whispered, "As good a day to die as any." He would defend them until his end.
Wendy Owens
#63. Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.
Michael Imperioli
#64. to eat, walk and sleep anywhere was life as good as it got.
Toni Morrison
#65. A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
Elbert Hubbard
#66. The only band that I can see that made changes over the years with success was The Beatles. They were able to change album to album and still be just as good or better. I didn't feel that we were able to do that. The Beatles were in a class by themselves.
Johnny Ramone
#67. A woman is only as good as the peace and light she radiates.
Coco Chanel
#68. (On Dickens) No other writer is quite as good at making marriage vows about remaining together "till death us do part" sound more like a suicide pact.
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
#70. I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.
Julia Roberts
#71. The way the tour has developed has been as good an example of that as you would like to see.
David Gower
#72. Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
William Gibson
#73. We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.
Adolph Rupp
#74. It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well as good; freedom to enjoy the rewards of good judgment, and freedom to suffer the penalties of bad judgment. If this is not true, the word "freedom" has no meaning.
Ben Moreell
#75. All the action adventure girls have red hair," he said. "Whenever it is an independent girl, not a sidekick person, when she has her own mind or does as good as the guys, she has red hair.
Marion Roach
#76. What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#77. I love bright red drinks, don't you? They taste twice as good as any other color.
L.M. Montgomery
#78. Bouldering is like masturbation: not as good as the real thing but you don't need to worry about your protection.
Scott Grimes
#79. Most people were raised to believe they are just as good as the next person. I was always told I was better.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#80. I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been.
Kevin Costner
#81. Time sweeps everything along and can bring good as well as evil, evil as well as good.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#82. I was not really as good as I should have been.
Eddie Albert
#83. Maybe you bought this book because you love Sarah Palin and you want to find reasons to hate me. We've got that! I use all kinds of elitist words like "impervious" and "torpor," and I think gay people are just as good at watching their kids play hockey as straight people. Maybe
Tina Fey
#84. Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.
John Lubbock
#85. A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.
Frank Whittle
#86. Will you get over your gigantic ego? Jesus, it's a bigger choking hazard than your cock. You're a man who's had a lot of sex. Of course you're good in bed. but there are others out there who are just as good. You're not special because you know how to give a woman an orgasm." "I
Jordan Marie
#87. If I lived a billion years more, in my body or yours, there's not a single experience on Earth that could ever be as good as being dead. Nothing.
Di Morrissey
#88. The superhero, his underwear bagging at the seat and knees, is just a country boy at heart, tutored to perceive all human action as good or bad, orderly or dynamic, and so doesn't know whether to shit or fly.
Robert Coover
#89. A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
Irving Thalberg
#90. You had as good a chance as I did. I told you everything I saw, as I saw it at the time. And if that was in itself deceptive, remember, I told you that, too: I warned you, right from the beginning, that I lie.
Tana French
#91. If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.
Sara Blakely
#92. I'm all right, not as good as my mom is. Maybe because I don't have kids.
Saoirse Ronan
#93. Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.
Patrick DeWitt
#94. Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.
Samuel Johnson
#95. In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions.
Reggie Watts
#96. Bill Murray I always liked. I'm not as good as him, but there's a quality in him that I like. And then there's DeNiro, I'll never be that.
David Spade
#97. It's hard enough to make a film without everyone saying, "Hang on, is this version as good as the one Kubrick would have made?" In peoples' minds they'll always think if Kubrick had done it it would be so much better. You don't need that extra stress.
Chris Cunningham
#98. They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good.
Donna Tartt
#99. Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it.
Liev Schreiber
#100. I'd always written rhymes but I was scared to share them. They stayed on paper or in my head, until I started going to watch battles and eventually thought to myself, "I'm definitely as good as some of these guys, and maybe even better than them".
Doc Brown
