Top 100 It's Good Quotes
#1. It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.
Simon Travaglia
#2. It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.
Pierce Brosnan
#3. I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.
Ryan Gosling
#4. But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.
Evan Davis
#5. The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.
Robert Genn
#6. When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#7. It's good for me to see so many other people who are not me. That there are so many others. I feel affection for them. Most of them are doing the best they can. I am also doing the best I can.
Erlend Loe
#8. It's good netiquette to provide links in updates. Everyone does not know what you know.
David Chiles
#9. Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
Vera Wang
#10. The peasant also found another use for this sacred object. 'He says of the icon: "It's good for praying -- and you can cover the pots with it too.
Orlando Figes
#11. I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
Andre Gide
#12. I think once a year it's good to look back at the history of Oscar and to embrace the great work that everybody's done this year and set it in place to the great work that's gone on before us.
Howard Shore
#13. I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
Lara Stone
#14. It's never fun to do it by yourself. It's good to have other people that are on the same path as you. It's nice to have that in common and be able to converse with them. It's cool to share that.
Nick Goepper
#15. Heads are a good deal, and I think they would be a common feature. It's hard to think of species that don't have heads, although there are some. It's good to have a head because it puts some of the sensory organs - eyes, ears, whiskers or whatever - next to the CPU, the brain.
Seth Shostak
#16. I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.
George W. Bush
#17. I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.
Brian May
#18. The thing with playing live is, most of the audience is in their 20s and 30s. If you're older than that, you don't tend to go out to shows anymore. So it's good if you can attract a younger audience because they've got the energy to get up off the sofa and go out.
Colin Hay
#19. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who you are and what you want to become and knowing all that you've got to work with, whether it's good or bad. My music was the only place I could be me for the longest time.
Hunter Hayes
#20. I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.
Sam Wyly
#21. I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
Eddie Trunk
#22. It's good common sense, your grace.'
Mahina shook her head. 'Good sense is far from common, I fear, Tarja.
Jennifer Fallon
#23. Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.
Jackie French
#24. I am not interested in repetition. I don't want to reach the point from where I wouldn't know how to go further. It's good to set limits for oneself, but there comes a moment when we must destroy what we have constructed.
Josef Koudelka
#25. It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody.
Sarah Gavron
#26. It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.
George Burns
#27. So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence.
Thierry Henry
#28. I don't know what's wrong with me, but like, the second I stop working, I have a panic attack, so it's good for me to be thinking of projects ahead of time and lining things up.
Katie Aselton
#29. I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
Zaha Hadid
#30. Often when you're filming comedy and you've done six or seven takes, the joke's been done and you know you're gonna have to say it again in another set up. I think it's good not to be indulged too much.
Jim Howick
#31. My favorite thing in moviemaking is to shoot in chronological order if at all possible, because it just helps for continuity and all the logistical purposes. It also helps with performance and the journey of each character, but I also think it's good for the director and everyone [else] involved.
Zoe Bell
#32. It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.
Haruki Murakami
#33. Our fashion for us, it's an expression; first of all of life, I put all of myself in my fashion. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but this is a mirror, an expression about Domenico and Stefano. It's not just a profession: it's a person with a lot of personality.
Stefano Gabbana
#34. Kids are really good at ignoring the heavy-handed message and getting with the fun parts. It's good they are, because adults have devoted a lot of effort writing them message thinly disguised as stories and clubbing children over the head with them.
Jo Walton
#35. What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.
Benny Anderson
#36. Business is like sex. When it's good, it's very, very good; when it's not so good, it's still good.
George Katona
#37. Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do - not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad.
Stephen King
#39. You never hear a prophecy start with the gods were in error. If it's good, thank the gods - but if it's bad, it's your own damn fault!
Gregory S. Close
#40. I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.
Jerry Della Femina
#41. It's good to give some of the kids a chance for playing time and some confidence. It doesn't do any good to leave starters out there just to beat a team by 60-70 points.
Sylvia Hatchell
#42. It's not good to be bad, but it's good to be worse - that's life.
Debolina
#43. If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.
Molly Ringwald
#44. The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.
Paul Feig
#45. No, really, Ronnie, it's good to share information when you know someone else is dating the lunarly challenged.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#46. I tend to choose collaborators who are more courageous than I am. I think it's good for me.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
#47. Just getting young kids excited about hockey, then they'll want to skate, they'll want to start joining junior leagues, they'll want to play in high school, etc., so we're trying to expand at all levels. That's good for the sport, and it's good for the Ducks long term.
Henry Samueli
#48. In real life, it's good Netiquette to limit yourself to a two drink maximum when social networking.
David Chiles
#49. But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.
Jessi Kirby
#50. I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.
Max Von Sydow
#51. I like to work out while I'm away - it's good to clear my head and makes me feel cuter poolside.
Brad Goreski
#52. Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.
Charlton Heston
#53. It's good that they've seen it, but how can I be satisfied after working for two years making a film which I hope will make a difference, when the government sees the film and does nothing about it?
Mathieu Kassovitz
#54. I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.
Margaret Keane
#55. If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.
Miles Davis
#56. For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the 3. I think there's only so many great stories out there. If you get the chance to be a part of one, it doesn't matter what it is.
Tom Cavanagh
#57. I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.
T Bone Burnett
#58. It's good fun to create an unpredictable character. When he comes into the room, I don't know what he's going to do - I have to find my way.
Martin Amis
#59. It's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're going. But, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies.
Sharron Angle
#60. In reply to 'Do you think your old music is better?':
If I did, I would have quit music altogether. You should never put out anything if you don't think it's good.
Patrick Stump
#61. It's good when you're getting points - you're obviously feeling confident.
Patrick Kane
#62. It's good to be slightly ambitious, but I believe one shouldn't be too calculative. It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.
Deepika Padukone
#63. Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.
Big Sean
#64. I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
Barbara Kruger
#65. So when they have Mourinho and Benitez joining the Premiership they should say it's good for us, maybe these guys have something new to give.
Jose Mourinho
#66. Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
Patrick Demarchelier
#67. I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars.
Pierce Brosnan
#68. I think pressure is a good thing and it's good to be able to feel it and use it and experience the feeling of it and especially if you can get past it.
Daniel Radcliffe
#69. Just because you have a good hand today doesn't mean it's good tomorrow. And some of the things we're doing may become very disadvantageous at some point.
Jamie Dimon
#70. I guess it's good in a sense that it stops any of it from happening, but now you're telling me if it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals and a guy has a chance to make a play he's going to be like, 'Well, do I want this $10,000 or do I want a championship?'
Blake Griffin
#71. I've decided to be happy because it's good for my health.
Voltaire
#72. I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.
Kirsten Dunst
#73. It's good to find common ground with people. When you find common ground and you see things from other people's perspective, you can have a voice in their lives, you can have an influence.
Victoria Osteen
#74. Here's the thing about luck ... you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
Alice Hoffman
#75. It took me years to work out the difference between net and gross. In meetings I just used to say, 'Tell me if it's good or bad news.
Richard Branson
#76. I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.
Joe Mantello
#77. I have always advocated doing everything possible to pay off credit card balances; it's good financial management and the ticket to a strong FICO credit score.
Suze Orman
#78. You have to believe that you can act and that you're the right person for the job but I think it's good to not always know how you're going to do it. The fun part is trying to figure it out.
Scarlett Johansson
#79. Growing up as a girl is always traumatizing, especially when you have the deadly combination of greasy skin and getting your boobs at ten. But I think it's good to grow up that way. It builds character.
Tina Fey
#80. And you're been nothing but a pain. So don't get all high and mighty. Good chocolate milk by the way."
Muscles ticked in Matthias' jaw. "It's not chocolate milk. It's Milo."
I took another sip. "Well, it's good.
A&E Kirk
#81. The past makes a good bishop but a poor king ... it's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to fight yesterday's battles and miss tomorrow's promise.
Richard Paul Evans
#82. It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.
Michael Morpurgo
#83. They're always saying I'm a capitalistic pig. I suppose I am. But ... it's good for my drumming.
Keith Moon
#84. Do not defend a music program because it's good for other things. That's like defending kissing because it gives you stronger lip muscles for eating soup neatly.
Anonymous
#85. In times of dread it's good to have an old man along. An old man has seen worse.
Leif Enger
#86. It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
Damien Hirst
#87. The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.
H.L. Mencken
#88. A challenge is always important; as an actor, as a human, it's good to face challenges and it's good to push your boundaries.
Ed Speleers
#89. I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.
Joan Jett
#90. Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.
Lewis Carroll
#91. There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today ... and will come around for me tomorrow.
Charles Dickens
#92. It's good for a man to get drunk once in a while. It releases all the evil spirits.
James Clavell
#93. Good can be a stifling word, a word that makes you hesitate and stare at a blank page and second-guess yourself and throw stuff in the trash. What's important is to get your hands moving and let the images come. Whether it's good or bad is beside the point. Make art.
Austin Kleon
#94. I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.
Albert Einstein
#95. It's good for my fans to be able to connect with me as a person because I am a very normal 15-, 16-year-old girl. I still get in trouble. I still have boy problems and friend problems so it's just very good for my fans to see that.
Cheyenne Kimball
#96. If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.
Kin Hubbard
#97. I'm having a mid-life crisis, so I thought instead of having sex with a stranger, I'd just get a new haircut. It's good clean fun without all the messy emotional baggage. It's just a haircut folks! It's not like I had an eye removed, or a leg added on! Live a little ... it'll grow back!
Ed Robertson
#98. As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.
Sylvester McCoy
#99. Not all coincidence has to be loaded with meaning. Sometimes, things simply recur because that's how it is in life, that's how the mood gets in. It's good to subtly overdo it too, as Nabokov does, as Sebald does. It's a good way to intensify that region of localized weather that we call a novel.
Teju Cole
#100. It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.
Jackie Evancho
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