Goodish Quotes

#1. I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That's 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book - something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.

Stephen King

#2. The Paddock was one of those medium-sized houses with a goodish bit of very tidy garden and a carefully rolled gravel drive curving past a shrubbery that looked as if it had just come back from the dry cleaner - the sort of house you take one look at and say to yourself, Somebody's aunt lives there.

P.G. Wodehouse

#3. I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

Anna Neagle

#4. Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

Adam Clarke

#5. I'm a very goal-oriented person in certain ways, and then in certain ways I understand that there's nothing at all that I can do about certain things. In other words, I would never set a goal that I don't have control over achieving.

Casey James

#6. The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

Swami Vivekananda

#7. Night fell upon them dark and starblown and the wagon grew swollen near mute with dew. On their chairs in such black immobility these travelers could have been stone figures quarried from the architecture of an older time.

Cormac McCarthy

#8. To be completely honest, I think if I hadn't been bullied into the band, I would have been happier as an art student. I would have been happier in a Brian Eno world.

Pete Townshend

#9. My day begins a little before 6 A.M. I never set an alarm clock.

David H. Murdock

#10. The desire for liberation arises in human beings at the end of many births, through the ripening of their past virtuous conduct.

Anonymous

#11. American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens their egos.

Eric G. Wilson