Top 100 Good One Quotes
#2. Short stories are my favorite art form. A good one is compact and complete, a telling little slice of life, capturing a moment in time that - for the character - defines her, changes her, is the tipping point for all that will follow.
Ellen Klages
#3. There's only one thing in life more dangerous than a bad idea, and that's a good one.
Greg Curtis
#4. A friend is a friend forever
And a good one will never leave, never
Laura Marling
#5. I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
Taylor Swift
#6. Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.
Virginia Woolf
#7. In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.
David Hockney
#8. I love a challenge and saving the Planet seems like a good one.
Paul Stamets
#9. I meant what I said before, you know. I trust you. Whatever reason you're doing this, I know it's a good one. But before things start moving, are you sure this is what you want?
Richelle Mead
#10. If the headline is a good one, it is a relatively simple matter to write the copy.
John Caples
#11. I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.
Steven Moffat
#12. My dad gave me a haircut ... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.
Chili Davis
#13. I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.
Jim Carrey
#14. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.
Julia Cameron
#15. She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.
Daniel Defoe
#16. Photography is like making cheese. It takes a hell of a lot of milk to make a small amount of cheese just like it takes a hell of a lot of photos to get a good one.
Robert Gillis
#17. Our life must have an aim, but we must also ensure that the direction we take is a good one.
Yehudi Menuhin
#18. One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.
James Gunn
#19. There was a year between school and getting going as an actor when I basically just watched films. Video shops were the new thing, and there was a good one round the corner and me and my brother just watched everything, from the horror to the European art-house.
Aidan Gillen
#20. Sometimes guys'll say to you, 'Have a good one'. I say, 'I already have a good one. Now I'm looking for a longer one'.
George Carlin
#21. After all these years, I'm starting to learn what a good director does, and I know what a good one does with actors: help us navigate finer instincts, help us when we're wrong, encourage us when things are great.
Brian Geraghty
#22. FOR WARREN G. HARDING, the summer of 1927 was not a good one, which was perhaps a little surprising since he had been dead for nearly four years by then.
Bill Bryson
#23. As for my memory, I have a particularly good one. I never keep any record of my investigations or experiments. My memory files all these things away conveniently and reliably. I should say, though, that I didn't cumber it up with a lot of useless matter.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
#24. I would have loved to have been in 'Bottle Rocket' to take over Owen Wilson's character Dignan, because he's just awesome and amazing. I would have loved to have been in 'The Darjeeling Limited' maybe. I think that would have been a good one to be in.
Tony Revolori
#25. Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#26. Did I just fall in love? I hope not. Maybe my body fell in love a little bit, it's shaking and wants a long hug. His name was Ketchup. I will always remember that name so I'm glad it's a pretty good one.
Dia Felix
#27. Prayer and hard work are a pretty good one-two punch to get things done.
Rick Santorum
#28. BONN: I thought fatherhood was hard, and some people weren't suited for it. But it's not. Being a father, a good one, I mean, is about making a choice.
Bijou Hunter
#29. Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.
Josh Billings
#30. I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.
Martin McDonagh
#31. It was like she knew a secret, a good one, and if you got close enough, maybe she'll tell you, too.
Morgan Matson
#32. Each day when you wake up you have a choice: You can have a good day, or you can have a bad day. So you might as well have a good one.
Christy Jordan
#33. You want to hear a riddle, you say? I know a very good one. It begins, why is a raven like a writing desk?'
She lifted her chin. 'Have you gone mad, Hatta? I can't seem to tell.'
'They are both so full of poetry, you see. Darkness and whimsy, nightmares and song.
Marissa Meyer
#34. You can only have one thought at a time- make it a good one.
Lee Roberson
#35. Believe me, I love a good chocolate chip ice cream. I'm not going to go for some lousy version of it. If I'm going to have it, I'm going to have a really good one. I believe in treating yourself occasionally to something.
Christie Brinkley
#36. It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
Michael Caine
#37. Be the best of anything you get into. If you want to be a whore, it's your life. Be a damn good one. Don't chippy at anything. Anything worth having is worth working for.'
It was her version of Polonius' speech to Laertes. With that wisdom in my pouch, I was to go out and buy my future.
Maya Angelou
#38. No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
William James
#40. I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
Nick Cave
#41. Then maybe you can help me out with something. I need an armaments shop. I want to buy a sword. A really good one." Jace looked surprised, then amused. "What for?" "Oh, you know. Killing." Clary made a hand gesture she hoped conveyed her murderous intentions toward all things evil.
Cassandra Clare
#42. I had six good years and one bad one, and everyone was wondering whether I'd have a good one again.
Mike Lowell
#43. The Telecaster has two sounds - a good one and a bad one.
Jimi Hendrix
#44. As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.
Douglas Coupland
#45. I'm Bertie Byrd. I rent your house since you don't live here anymore." "Did you say Dirty Bird?" He laughed out loud. "Oh, that's a good one, Mr. Fortney. I never heard that one before. A real knee-slapper. Where's the key?
Dolores Wilson
#46. Everyone has a past, she reminded herself. If only she could have a good one. One that was exciting and involved pirates or space creatures.
Susan Mallery
#47. Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
Michael Arndt
#48. One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
Charles Dudley Warner
#49. She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn't for the pressing demands of so on and so forth.
Ellen Raskin
#50. You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer."
"I sometimes think I should have been a good one."
"Why?"
"Because I am patient.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
#51. The safety argument against steroids may be a good one, but let's be honest. It isn't the one that motivates most officials and fans to frown on steroids. Steroid use does not just seem risky or unnatural, it seems to disrupt the level playing field.
Alice Dreger
#52. One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
Henry David Thoreau
#53. An advertisement will be a good one - that is if the headline is really a "stopper."
John Caples
#54. Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.
David Eagleman
#55. Make your influence a good one.
Act in a way you would be proud of even if the whole world was watching, because your example could mean the world to just one person.
Lindsey Stirling
#56. You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one.
Jayce O'Neal
#57. My first proper job was as a commodities broker. I went off to work every morning in an '80s power suit. I couldn't afford a good one, so I'd buy nice buttons instead and make it look better than it actually was.
Trinny Woodall
#58. Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.
George Horace Lorimer
#59. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. This will be my last contract. I wanted it to be a good one.
Leonard Little
#61. So always risk your skin, she said, and never fear losing it, cause it always does some good one way or another when the powers that be deign to take it off us.
Ali Smith
#62. you, yourself are the only one you answer to, so you better make the argument a good one!
Tracy Lee
#64. Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.
Robert Bresson
#65. The only thing you own is your story. Make sure it's a good one.
Maya Angelou
#66. Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
George Savile
#67. Having your back scratched is not the only reason to be married, but it is a good one, especially for those spots that are so hard to reach by yourself.
Maureen Johnson
#68. My favourite spectator sport is watching people who should know better searching for something (and often claiming to find it) where it never could be. Women claiming to find feminism in Islam is a good one.
Julie Burchill
#69. The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.
John Drinkwater
#70. A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Aldous Huxley
#71. All right, McCauley. Just what the hell are you doing in bed with my sister? I need an explanation, and a good one!" "There's a damned good one," he said lightly, addressing Jesse but his eyes narrowing on Daniel. "She's my wife.
Heather Graham
#72. I want to get to a point in my career where I can be a role model. A good one. I want to say, 'I got here without drugs, and I got here without drinking or smoking. If I can do it, you can do it. I have no doubt.' I really want kids to have a chance in life.
Chad Michael Murray
#73. How old are you?"
"Ah that is a good one. I do not know."
"Before cars?"
"Before trains, before guns. Before people stole the curves from the high clouds and the angles from the flying flocks to build all their little alphabets.
Toby Barlow
#74. It's the last Sunday in 2013! Make it a good one! The choice is yours!
Theresa Wolmart
#75. The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.
John Clare
#76. I don't give a shit about a clean fight. Just make it a good one.
Starla Huchton
#77. Okay. I've got a good one." Simon stroked Isabelle's hair feeling her lashes flutter against his neck as she closed her eyes. "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.
Cassandra Clare
#78. Everyone's had shit in their lives. Some people have it worse than others. But no one can turn you into a bad person, just like no one can turn you into a good one. We're all dealt our hands in life, and how we choose to react is entirely up to us. That's free will.
Kelley York
#79. There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#80. But there's none so blind - ow! Good one! - as those who will not listen.
Neil Gaiman
#81. The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.
H.G.Wells
#82. For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
Maiwenn
#83. If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? ... Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.
Ayn Rand
#84. A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
Hesiod
#85. See, that's the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone. You get a good one, you may even find what you need.
Kristen Ashley
#86. Are you busy?" the caller would ask. "Yes I'm working." Sitting in my chair, cats nearby, I was reading a great book. That was my job this year, and it was a good one. The salary was nonexistent, but the satisfaction was daily and deep.
Nina Sankovitch
#87. An acid is like a woman: a good one will eat through your pants.
Mel Gibson
#88. You're cheery, which is important, you're cheeky, which is more important, and you've got a lovely bottom, which is all-important. The ass of a man is the piston that drives the world, and you have a good one.
Stephen King
#89. I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.
Clark Gable
#90. Chess is a great game. No matter how good one is, there is always somebody better. No matter how bad one is, there is always somebody worse.
Israel Albert Horowitz
#91. Sometimes you will mistake need for love. Be careful. The road with need is never a fair one, never a good one. Much like the road you must walk down. Beware of the one who needs you.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#92. Everyday you wake up on the right side of the dirt is a good one.
Paula H. Deen
#93. A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.
J. P. Morgan
#94. There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.
Frederic Bastiat
#95. Our relation, all round, exists
it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it and with it
Henry James
#96. A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
Hesiod
#97. I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.
Mary Archer
#98. Men aren't stupid, and you don't need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you. Here's the only rule you need: if a man loves you, he will do anything he can to keep you around. Anything.
Kim Gruenenfelder
#99. The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.
Seth Godin
#100. Are you a lefty?" he asked with amiable interest.
"No. But if this hand gets bitten off, I'll still have my good one to write with.
Lisa Kleypas
