Top 100 Good Ones Quotes
#1. Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#2. Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
Stephen King
#3. Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.
Harlan Coben
#4. Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant room. The human capacity for finding unique ways to screw things up always amazes me.
Jay Rayner
#5. All the most terrifying ifs involve people. All the good ones do as well.
Hanya Yanagihara
#6. The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones.
Frederic Reynolds
#7. I like them all-pointers, setters, retrievers, spaniels-what have you. I've had good ones and bad of several kinds. Most of the bad ones were my fault and most of the good ones would have been good under any circumstances.
Gene Hill
#8. When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has one in his pocket.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#9. You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
Caitlin Fitzgerald
#10. Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.
Pierce Brosnan
#11. That's what writers do - the good ones anyway - we watched and we learned the faux pas of human nature. The delicate ways people came undone, the tiny little frays in the tapestry.
Tarryn Fisher
#12. I've had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet.
Henry V. O'Neil
#13. My ideas are like a Hydra. Remove a bad one and two good ones will take its place.
Paul E. Petty
#14. If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
Bertrand Russell
#15. Napoleon was later to comment that it was better to have one bad commander than two good ones with shared authority.
Adrian Goldsworthy
#16. Everything has reasons, even if they're not good ones. And the reasons have reasons.
Johnny Rich
#17. Saturdays are set for antique shops. Williamsburg in Brooklyn has some good ones. I get in there and start meddling around with dusty boxes and rickety, worn-in stuff. I like it when I find something with someone else's name on it.
Valerie June
#18. I asked if he thought the ratio of good ones to scum was higher or lower than in society at large.
"It's the same," he said. "Of course." It was the same everywhere, he added: an immutable law.
Haruki Murakami
#19. She always says she doesn't believe women should get married before the age of thirty-five ... she says women change so much in their twenties, they can't possibly know who they are, and the choices they make before the age of thirty are rarely good ones.
Jane Green
#20. Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.
Melanie Laurent
#21. People inspire me to write, the good ones and the bad ones.
Sevyn Streeter
#23. Call them rules or call them limits, good ones, I believe, have this in common: they serve reasonable purposes; they are practical and within a child's capability; they are consistent; and they are an expression of loving concern.
Fred Rogers
#24. Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs
Ellen Hopkins
#25. I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
Laura Linney
#26. I think I'm kind of attracted to the material more than the medium. I'm not opposed to doing a television show, though. I actually think there are a couple of good ones. And there is some terrible theater. Film is a very different kind of acting.
Dan Futterman
#27. I just finished my 62nd or my 63rd movie here, and you know, I do good ones, I do bad ones, I do big parts, I do small parts, I do cameos - but I've allowed myself a pat on the back, because I realized that I've been working in Hollywood now since 1973.
Robert Englund
#28. I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.
Thomas Kretschmann
#29. Maybe that's as good as it gets." "Shit. I wish it had been better." "Maybe it will be. We just live our lives, good ones. Pay that way." He leaned into me and sobbed. "Nic, I love you. You saved my fucking soul.
Harper Fox
#30. His personality gets a suck's ass," Tony continued, nudging the K named kicker. "So why, in all things unfair and unholy, does he get all the good ones lining up outside his door?"
Jude leaned forward. "I can give you an eight inch explanation, Rufello.
Nicole Williams
#31. to help our ancestors survive, the brain evolved a negativity bias that makes it like Velcro for bad experiences but Teflon for good ones.
Rick Hanson
#32. Some women
the good ones
are like a breath of fresh air, amusing and different and invigorating. The trouble is that it is damnably difficult to capture air and hold it for any length of time.
Karen Hawkins
#33. The brain is good at learning from bad experiences, but bad at learning from good ones.
Rick Hanson
#34. Maybe 5 percent, maybe less, were the ones who sucked it up, learned the lesson, and moved on. The Julies. The good ones. His
James S.A. Corey
#35. It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better ... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen
#36. Everyone in your life gives you something. The bad ones give you experience, the worst ones a lesson; the good ones give you memories, the best ones, joy.
Jeffrey Fry
#37. If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.
Umar
#38. Somewhere down the road ... I hope you find [that girls] don't all have the same thing between their ears. The good ones don't put up with macho mind games.
Alex Flinn
#39. One thing about humans is that we all have them - lifestories. We live by and through them. But writers of memoir are particularly good at bringing literary strategies and form to experience (at least the good ones are).
Lidia Yuknavitch
#40. I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.
Keith Richards
#41. I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones, who have drawn too much inspiration from photography and who, over time, have a problem forming their own identity.
Peter Lindbergh
#42. Thoughts are things - choose the good ones!
Mike Dooley
#43. When I was in New York, I took my bike everywhere for transportation. I didn't have a fixed-gear bicycle, like a lot of the messengers do, but I had a stripped-down deal - having lost a few good ones in New York - and I did 10 to 15 miles a day just getting around the city.
Thomas Gibson
#44. Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?
Elizabeth Scott
#45. The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.
T. R. Knight
#46. And we step off the curb, all of us together, as if to say: Here we come. Through hard days and good ones, through despair and through exhilaration, in love and out of love, for just now or for forever. Here we come. It's our parade.
Nina LaCour
#47. Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much.
Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful.
And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless.
Seth Godin
#48. Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.
Eileen Myles
#49. Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts of spontaneous combustion.
Janet Evanovich
#50. Listen, son. Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range then we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.
Robert A. Heinlein
#51. When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them.
Michael Rooker
#52. There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones.
W. Edwards Deming
#53. We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.
Mohnish Pabrai
#54. The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.
Steven Pressfield
#55. When there's a great horror movie, people are like, 'Horror's back!' And when there's a series of not so good ones, 'Horror's dead.' I think it's all about the quality. When there are one or two good horror movies in a row, people come out interested again.
Jason Blum
#56. There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too.
Michael W. Smith
#57. I want to do the best I can right away. There's no point for me to just kind of be relaxed about it. Of course, in each match winning is out of my control, but I want to try to do the best I can as soon as I can, and I want to have 10 successful years and not five slow ones and then five good ones.
Eugenie Bouchard
#58. he knew that bad premonitions have a far higher accuracy rate than good ones.
Haruki Murakami
#59. Kink crowds are the same the world over. The good ones are already taken, the hot ones only talk to each other, and everyone else is desperate.
Alexis Hall
#60. Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?
Benjamin Franklin
#61. I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
Terence McKenna
#63. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.
Colleen Hoover
#64. Relationships - at least the good ones - are supposed to be built on truth and trust.
Kylie Logan
#65. When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural.
Michel Hazanavicius
#66. I know perfectly well that no musician can make his thoughts or his talents different to what Heaven has made them; but I also know that if Heaven had given him good ones, he must also be able to develop them properly.
Felix Mendelssohn
#67. All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.
David Ives
#68. Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.
Neal Shusterman
#69. Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
Denis Diderot
#70. Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The good ones are just so good and inspiring and make you feel good.
David Walton
#71. Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. t's sort of a trance. And when a piece is done, I have little memory of how I wrote it, and zero confidence I'd ever be able to do it again.
John Hodgman
#72. Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are
taken, and those that aren't are inaccessible.
PHOEBE TRAEGER
Jill Shalvis
#73. Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're not good ones. And then you'll follow through with a handful of them and sometimes you'll be pretty disappointed. And then other times you'll follow through and you'll go, 'You know what? It's nice to be right.'
Max Greenfield
#74. I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad.
Kelli O'Hara
#75. We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.
Graham Greene
#76. To me, the quarterback position is about getting your team out of bad things and into good ones.
Chad Pennington
#77. When people talk about the great quarterbacks, it's almost exclusively the guys who have won Super Bowls. There have been some very good ones who hardly get mentioned because they never won the big one. I don't know if that's fair, but that's the way it is.
Warren Moon
#78. Those who aren't caught up into this bigotry, this hatred, those who respect us when they see us. Then you have an obligation also, the good ones. To make sure you say to the others, that this blue wall of silence must come down and that everybody must be treated equally.
Kweisi Mfume
#79. When you collect bad loans ... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power of persuasion, persistence and desperation.
John Stumpf
#80. life was made up of hundreds of individual moments. We need to focus on the good ones, rather than trying to control everything continuously.
Nick M. Lloyd
#81. People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones.
Jay Rayner
#82. While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
Gore Vidal
#83. It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
Ray Bradbury
#84. I think that's a mercy of this island, actually, that it won't give us our terrible memories for long, but let us keep the good ones for as long as we want them.
Maggie Stiefvater
#85. Since we have to make choices in life, why not choose the good ones?
Kcat Yarza
#86. If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.
Dean Ween
#87. The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.
Ricky Jay
#88. In starting to learn about film festivals and what were good ones - 'cause there are five billion of them - it was just a really good East Coast festival. And I thought this little movie was an East Coast film.
Andrew McCarthy
#89. I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.
Matthew McConaughey
#90. It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.
Abraham Lincoln
#91. The good ones go, if you wait too long. So you should go, before you stay too long.
Drake
#92. Forgive but punish bad behavior, reward the good ones and celebrate the victories and lessons learned.
Ben Tolosa
#93. Sound and Visual Effects and Editing are sometimes referred to as technical awards. They're not technical awards. They're given for artistic decisions. And sometimes we make them better than others, and I guess we made a couple of good ones on this one.
Randy Thom
#94. We were fair game
but we have kept out of the cesspool.
We are strong.
We are the good ones.
Do not discover us
for we lie together all in green
like pond weeds.
Hold me, my young dear, hold me.
Anne Sexton
#95. The idea is that your clients are looking for good suggestions, and they don't mind sifting through some not-so-good ones as long as they're offered with good intentions and with no ego attached.
Patrick Lencioni
#96. It's not smart to hold yourself away from the shocks of life, the good ones or the bad. They're all part of the mix, and paradoxically, shying away from them only makes things harder.
Linda Lael Miller
#97. Paradoxically, in the long run, bonds are at least as risky as stocks. This is because stock returns are "mean reverting." That is, a series of bad years is likely to be followed by a series of good ones, repairing some of the damage.
William J. Bernstein
#98. So what if we have chemistry. Chemistry doesn't miraculously turn bad boys into good ones.
Simone Elkeles
#99. It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones.
Maurice De Saxe
