Top 100 Quotes About Goodman
#1. But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant
Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan
Steve Goodman
#2. Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.
Paul Goodman
#3. Though experience should be our guide ... and we see mistakes are common at the age of twenty-three, it must be acknowledged that not every youthful feeling begins unworthily and ends in error. If this were the case, mankind would have perished long ago.
Allegra Goodman
#4. You lie even to yourself. Now that is the mark of a fool.
Alison Goodman
#5. If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.
Benny Goodman
#6. We each have a litany of holiday rituals and everyday habits that we hold on to, and we often greet radical innovation with the enthusiasm of a baby meeting a new sitter. We defend against it and - not always, but often enough - reject it. Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.
Ellen Goodman
#7. We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task, the need; but immense attention to the role, the procedure, prestige, and profit.
Paul Goodman
#8. I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors
since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this
present twelve o'clock at midnight.
William Shakespeare
#9. Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.
Ellen Goodman
#10. 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
#11. The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more easily than we can change the way we respond emotionally. It is easier to change behavior than feelings about that behavior.
Ellen Goodman
#12. If life is hard and we don't celebrate the small accomplishments, what's left?
Shawn Goodman
#13. 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
#14. When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.
John Goodman
#15. If you control the code, you control the world. This is the future that awaits us.
Marc Goodman
#16. My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.
Breckin Meyer
#17. After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
Benny Goodman
#18. Giving up a lot of yourself isn't really that hard when you realize that you get more than you give up.
John Goodman
#19. You have seen me at my worst and at my weakest. Let me show you my best.
Alison Goodman
#20. Why live unless you live large? Death is a reality, always present, waiting, with that in mind, live today, it is everything you own.
Jason Goodman
#21. Facebook's own security department has shockingly acknowledged that over 600,000 accounts are compromised every day.
Marc Goodman
#23. Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.
Ellen Goodman
#24. If one is traveling simply for the sake of traveling," Bly liked to say, "and not for the purpose of impressing fellow travelers, the problem of baggage becomes a very simple one.
Matthew Goodman
#25. Love made room for conflict. It allowed for the expression of more than one view and invited the paradox that disagreement was vital to harmony. Love required accepting and meant changing oneself rather than demanding change of others.
Jo Goodman
#26. My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.
Ellen Goodman
#27. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.
Ellen Goodman
#28. To this day the smell of fresh popcorn causes me to experience stress, hunger, and sketch ideas for John Goodman.
Tina Fey
#29. 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
#31. 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
#32. Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought coming someday.
John Goodman
#33. As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#34. We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.
Amy Goodman
#35. I can't do most things, if I'm honest, but cooking I definitely can't do.
Len Goodman
#36. Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.'
Len Goodman
#37. When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four miles in the snow to school - but I started at 'Newsweek' magazine in 1963, which was before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So it was actually legal to discriminate against women, and 'Newsweek' did.
Ellen Goodman
#38. [The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.
Amy Goodman
#39. Only a fool would blindly believe everything she was told.
Alison Goodman
#40. There they were sitting at the bar, these two Luscious babes, and they were Siamese twins.
Steve Goodman
#41. Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.
Lee Konitz
#42. 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
#43. I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.
John Goodman
#44. There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
Paul Goodman
#45. Even a cornered rabbit will fight with teeth and claws.
Alison Goodman
#46. 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
#47. You don't need a Superman to save the world
A GoodMan can do the job too...
Try once... Be one
Subhasis Das
#48. As in the case of the economy, an 'invisible hand' will often be a better cultivator of ideas and allocator of effort. The challenge for intelligence officials in the Information Age is to understand how to integrate these indirect mechanisms into their operations
Allan E. Goodman
#49. Isn't it daft? We make millions off people buying fuel and burning it, creating the greenhouse gases that caused these hurricanes to happen, sending prices back up for us to make millions off again.")
Leah Mcgrath Goodman
#50. The Civil War won formal rights for Negroes, but failed to win social justice and factual democracy. The actual result has been segregation, and fear and ignorance for both whites and blacks.
Paul Goodman
#51. If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.
Nelson Goodman
#52. You got to risk it if you want the biscuit.
Len Goodman
#53. Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.
Benny Goodman
#54. 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
#55. But the self is precisely the integrator; it is the synthetic unity, as Kant said. It is the artist of life. It is only a small factor in the total organism/environment interaction, but it plays the crucial role of finding and making the meanings that we grow by.
Paul Goodman
#56. Any effort ... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.
Nelson Goodman
#57. Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.
Ellen Goodman
#58. It rarely adds anything to say, 'In my opinion' - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
Paul Goodman
#59. How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.
Ellen Goodman
#60. It is your decision what kind of person you will be, how you will respond to the challenges you face. Keep your promises, forgo your grudges, apologize when necessary, speak your love, and speak it again.
David A. Goodman
#61. An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel
Paul Goodman
#62. Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
Ellen Goodman
#63. Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.
John Goodman
#64. I remember when I was about 12, I read M. R. James' 'Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary' under the covers, way too young to fully understand what was going on with those stories - completely terrified but absolutely loved them.
Tom Goodman-Hill
#65. In his school, Bertrand Russell thought it was better if they had the sex, so they could give their undivided attention to mathematics, which was the main thing.
Paul Goodman
#66. Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.
John Goodman
#67. One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.
Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman
#68. 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
#69. You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.
Ellen Goodman
#70. Being surrounded by toadies does not mean you are respected; it means you are the head toad.
Jo Goodman
#71. I feel like part of me will die when John Goodman dies.
Chrissy Teigen
#72. 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
#73. Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.
Ellen Goodman
#74. The distance between me and Benny [Goodman], was that I was trying to play a musical thing, and Benny was trying to swing. Benny had great fingers; I'd never deny that. But listen to our two versions of 'Star Dust.' I was playing; he was swinging.
Artie Shaw
#75. 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
#76. The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.
Paul Goodman
#77. People just do the strangest things when they believe they're entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe.
John Goodman
#78. 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
#79. Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.
Artie Shaw
#80. 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
#81. When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.
Paul Goodman
#82. 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
#83. I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight.
Len Goodman
#85. Men like you preach change, but I wonder. Is this a battle we can really fight?"
"You're fighting it already, Goodman Mennis. You're just losing horribly.
Brandon Sanderson
#87. The trouble when you die is that everyone says you were nice. I would like to be thought of as genuinely nice. I would like there to be people who can honestly say, 'Len! Oh yeah, there was more good than bad in him.'
Len Goodman
#88. Few great men would have got past personnel.
Paul Goodman
#89. yes, he had been preoccupied, but hadn't that been what I was looking for--someone who wouldn't pay too much attention, someone who wouldn't look at me to closely?
Carol Goodman
#90. 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
#91. I'm a huge fan of the program 'Democracy Now,' which is hosted by Amy Goodman, and I subscribe to the podcast.
Ellen Page
#92. People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.
Amy Goodman
#93. Touched by an angel, my ass!" roared the woman, whom I recognized despite the ash covering her face: Moondance. "I'll touch you, asshole!" She fired again.
Carol Goodman
#94. 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
#95. The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.
Andrew Goodman
#96. Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.
Ellen Goodman
#98. Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about. We will have zero tolerance for anyone who is intolerant.
Oscar Goodman
#99. We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.
Paul Goodman
#100. I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.
John Goodman
