Top 100 Goodman's Quotes
#1. The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.
Vladimir Nabokov
#2. It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.
Alvin Lee
#3. John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman.
Todd Phillips
#4. Benny Goodman's band was integrated before baseball. Even before it was physically integrated, music was integrated. Everyone listened to Armstrong and Ellington. The 20s was called the Jazz Age. It's part of being American.
Wynton Marsalis
#5. I think that sometimes when you get used to a bad thing
like being in prison or getting kidnapped by fairies
it's better to live with that bad thing than trying to change it. Because what if you get to chance to change it and you mess up? What if it's your last chance?
Carol Goodman
#6. It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.
Paul Goodman
#7. I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.
John Goodman
#8. Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.
Ellen Goodman
#9. Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
Benny Goodman
#10. The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
Amy Goodman
#11. The ability of one to affect many is scaling exponentially - and it's scaling for good and it's scaling for evil.
Marc Goodman
#12. did you realize every time you speak a query into Apple's Siri artificial intelligence agent, your voice recording is analyzed and stored by the company for at least two years?
Marc Goodman
#13. I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.
Amy Goodman
#14. People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.
Benny Goodman
#15. If you can sit all generations of a family down and entertain them and, at the same time, leave them talking about existential notions, then that's fantastic.
Tom Goodman-Hill
#16. I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.
Alvin Lee
#17. Sooner or later you go through the process because when the gun goes off when a race starts not everybody goes across the finish line. Not everybody has the same motivations. It's not even about stamina. It's about relentless, dog-headed, stubborn determination to cross that finish line.
Dean Goodman
#18. 'Spamalot' was a blip! I've never done anything else like that, and yet it's the only time I've ever been nominated for an Olivier award!
Tom Goodman-Hill
#19. I was very excited to hone in on John Goodman. Casting John first really set the tone. He's very good at being terrifying and being hilarious, and I loved the idea of that character not being merely 'moustache-twirly'. I enjoyed being scared by him.
Dan Trachtenberg
#20. Griffin's narrow, crooked smile held a hint of derision. "You are a romantic, then."
"No. Not at all. But I hold out hope that others might be.
Jo Goodman
#21. What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- ".
Paul Goodman
#22. I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.
Len Goodman
#23. Sometimes I think they are, not that it's ever been said,
Jo Goodman
#24. We're taking requests from customers who are looking for certain used copies. We already found 18 to 20 Louis L'Amour books that were on a customer's request list.
Andrew Goodman
#26. In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.
Ellen Goodman
#27. In an instant, all of his data, including every baby picture he had taken during his daughter's first year of life, were destroyed.
Marc Goodman
#28. If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.
Ellen Goodman
#29. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.
Paul Goodman
#30. In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists going to be allowed to dig without consent into our genetic codes, then market them?
Ellen Goodman
#31. My own view, for what it's worth, is that sexuality is lovely, there cannot be too much of it, it is self-limiting if it is satisfactory, and satisfaction diminishes tension and clears the mind for attention and learning.
Paul Goodman
#32. China has secretly developed an army of 180,000 cyber spies and warriors, mounting an incredible ninety thousand computer attacks a year against the U.S. Defense Department networks alone. The totality of the thefts and their impact on American national security are breathtaking.
Marc Goodman
#33. People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.
Ellen Goodman
#34. All of my life, trains had been coming and going, interrupting Ever's daily life with their loud disregard.
Matthew Aaron Goodman
#35. I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.
Ellen Goodman
#36. The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's.
Goodman Ace
#37. To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading the domain of management. No labor leader has entertained such a thought in our generation. Management has the "sole prerogative" to determine the products.
Paul Goodman
#38. Holy shit!" Moondance swung around, her face now streaked with the ashy remains of the nephilim, her eyes wide at the sight of me. "Callie's back, and she brought a laser gun!
Carol Goodman
#39. I get so annoyed at people not looking after their parents. The deal is when we are growing up they look after us and as they grow older we look after them. That's the deal.
Len Goodman
#40. The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.
Amy Goodman
#41. Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It's not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that's destructive.
Ellen Goodman
#42. But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.
John Goodman
#43. Avoid retirement playgrounds like poison, because that's exactly what they are.
Linda Goodman
#44. You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right.
Ellen Goodman
#45. When I first met Benny Goodman he wouldn't talk about anything but clarinets, mouthpieces, reeds, etc. When I tried to change the subject, he said 'But that's what we have in common. We both play clarinet.' I said, 'No, Benny, that's where we're different. You play clarinet, I play music.'
Artie Shaw
#46. I can't explain something I saw on holiday on Holy Island when I was about nine years old, but do you know what, it could have been my PE teacher dressed in a monk's habit. I have no idea. I'm not a ghost person ... it doesn't mean there aren't unexplained things; I just don't think they're ghosts.
Tom Goodman-Hill
#47. We've got an acquisitive gene. We want and want, and there's no way around it.
Allegra Goodman
#48. My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."
Ellen Goodman
#49. God works in many ways His wonders to perform. But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drived over a cliff and "by a miracle" he only breaks his back. It would be more divine if he were a better driver and stayed on the road.
Paul Goodman
#50. 'The Thirteenth Tale' is reminiscent of 'Wuthering Heights' because you're never sure if it's a ghost or if people have gone a bit mad; that feeling that's been channelled all the way from Bronte is a really exciting one.
Tom Goodman-Hill
#51. We have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.
Ellen Goodman
#52. Finding the stewardess, Bly asked her about the monkey. The stewardess replied drily, "We have met." Bly was now alarmed to see that the stewardess's arm was bandaged from wrist to shoulder."What did you do?" she asked. "I did nothing but scream," the stewardess replied; "the monkey did the rest.
Matthew Goodman
#53. Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought coming someday.
John Goodman
#54. I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going.
Benny Goodman
#55. I have a dark sense of humor,' Fanny explained.
'What's that supposed to mean?' asked Honor.
'It means I'm funny once you get to know me,' Fanny said.
Allegra Goodman
#56. I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.
Amy Goodman
#57. That also means the antivirus software you are running on your own computer is likely only catching 5 percent of the emerging threats targeting your machine. If your body's own immune system had a batting average like that, you would be dead in a matter of hours.
Marc Goodman
#58. For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.
Paul Goodman
#59. This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.
John Goodman
#60. In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is extremely hard to aim at objective truth or world culture. One's own products are likely to be personal or parochial.
Paul Goodman
#61. I am good in bed - I don't snore. I don't take the duvet. I just lay there and go straight off to sleep. That's all you want out of a bloke.
Len Goodman
#62. Hat the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we lived. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.
Ellen Goodman
#63. TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.
Goodman Ace
#64. Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.
Lee Konitz
#65. I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours to cast a ballot knowing what we ought to remember: that it makes a difference. Not always a big difference. Not always an immediate difference. But a difference.
Ellen Goodman
#66. and the goodman beheld this apparition, which had bare feet and a tattered petticoat, running about among the flower-beds distributing life around her. The sound of the watering-pot on the leaves filled Father Mabeuf's soul with ecstasy. It seemed to him that the rhododendron was happy now.
Victor Hugo
#67. The women's movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we'd break open the doors that were closed to women, and with the other part, we'd walk through, transforming society for men and women. Turns out it was a lot easier to open the doors.
Ellen Goodman
#68. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.
Ellen Goodman
#69. Facebook's own security department has shockingly acknowledged that over 600,000 accounts are compromised every day.
Marc Goodman
#70. My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.
Breckin Meyer
#71. There's always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal will support you, impossible that because its molecules have begun to dance a little slower water will hold you up.
Carol Goodman
#72. If life is hard and we don't celebrate the small accomplishments, what's left?
Shawn Goodman
#73. I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.
Len Goodman
#74. If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.
Benny Goodman
#75. Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.
Paul Goodman
#76. But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant
Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan
Steve Goodman
#77. You can do and have and be things that people once said that's impossible for you to do and have and be.
Morris E. Goodman
#78. I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.
Len Goodman
#79. As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.
Len Goodman
#80. Love is not always doing what brings pleasure; love is also doing what is good for someone, whatever the cost at the moment. sometimes, it's leaving ... for awhile - and the love is shown, then, in the pain given. For pain is a lesson best learned from the one who loves you the most.
Linda Goodman
#81. John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.
Gene Siskel
#82. I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself; things like clean air, green grass, children with bright eyes, not being pushed around, useful work that suits one's abilities, plain tasty food, and occasional satisfying nookie.
Paul Goodman
#83. Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.
Amy Goodman
#84. Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
John Goodman
#85. I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.
Oscar Goodman
#86. I suppose I became in danger of overexposure, which is why, I think, doing theatre for a year is quite a sensible move - just to remember what it's all about, really.
Tom Goodman-Hill
#87. Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one's ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the world, and somehow making that reaction formation solid enough in the medium so that it indeed becomes an improved bit of real world for others.
Paul Goodman
#88. It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
Garrett Hedlund
#90. Who was this criminal mastermind behind Silk Road? Not at all whom you would expect. Ross Ulbricht was the kind of kid any parent would be proud of, an Eagle Scout from Austin, Texas, who had earned a master's degree in science and engineering.
Marc Goodman
#91. [The media] are using a national treasure
that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses.
Amy Goodman
#92. Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin.
Paul Goodman
#93. How come pleasure never makes it on to ... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?
Ellen Goodman
#94. Aim for believable growth, take immediate and ongoing action, under promise and over deliver, and work only on stuff that matters, and your financial destiny will prove to be a lot closer than you think! In fact, it's right around the corner...
Andy Goodman
#95. There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.
Alison Goodman
#96. What advertisers call brand loyalty is merely the consumer's defense against the need to waste energy differentiating among things that barely differ.
Ellen Goodman
#97. My mother handed me my sister and turned on the television. My sister's fingers wrapped around my earlobes, and she squeezed and made a sort-of laughing sound. Her smile could fill the room. When I held her like that, I felt important, like I wasn't just a brother but something more necessary.
Danny Goodman
#98. John Goodman isn't fat. He's in a category beyond fat. What does one call it? Whalelike.
Sam Kinison
#99. It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world.
Ellen Goodman
#100. If I don't trust [in] it, then it's worthless.
John Goodman
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