Top 100 Very Good Quotes
#1. Ron and Hermione were a very good audience; they gasped in all the right places.
J.K. Rowling
#2. If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general.
Marcus Samuelsson
#3. The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well-meaning.
Brian Tracy
#4. I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.
David Brinkley
#5. I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.
Bill Ackman
#6. I've been on some very good horses which have died, and that's very tough to take. But as much as we love the horses, and care for them, human life is obviously more important. Some good friends of mine have died or been paralysed while doing a job we all love.
Tony McCoy
#8. There must have been a reason, but it probably wasn't a very good one if I can't even remember what it was.
Haruki Murakami
#9. For heaven's sake, dear, he's a man. Men aren't very good at analyzing themselves, you know.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#11. If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
Michel De Montaigne
#12. I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.
Tanith Lee
#13. And so you ask a very good question. Why go on? Why even start off on such a path? What is to be gained from embarking on such a journey? Where is the incentive? What is the reason? The reason is ridiculously simple. There is nothing else to do.
Neale Donald Walsch
#14. Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.
Dustin Hoffman
#15. It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting it on a level with his own, said Sherlock Holmes, laughing.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#16. Spanish football is very good but every year the same teams win the league.
Royston Drenthe
#17. 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
#18. Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.
Nikki Giovanni
#19. You make a horror film that's not very good. You'd be joining a long line, in a long video aisle, of stuff that doesn't work.
Patrick Fabian
#20. Procrastinatio n will delay your change!!! Today is a very good day to change; don't let YOU stop yourself from growing!
Steve Harvey
#21. Fortunately, I've done so many interviews that I've become very good at detecting when someone is giving a less-than-candid reply.
Brandon Stanton
#22. I was just trying to be a very good human, instead I became a hero.
Amit Kalantri
#23. Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.
Jorge Posada
#24. Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
Henry Ward Beecher
#25. George you were very very bad to run away from Alice. Very bad But you were very good to stomp Sinclair when he was being a dick so I think we'll call this a wash.
MaryJanice Davidson
#26. Humans are very good at making algorithms work eventually.
Usama Fayyad
#27. I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.
Judy Blume
#28. He establishes every purpose by counsel (Prov. 20:18). God, indeed, uses carnal men to very good service, but without a thorough altering and conviction of their judgment. He works by them, but not in them. Therefore they do neither approve the good they do nor hate the evil they abstain from.
Richard Sibbes
#29. It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary and not only necessary but urgent to interest minds in the fate of Mind, that is to say, in their own fate.
Paul Valery
#30. I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
Jack Nicholson
#31. I am jewelry and objects together. This is the Elsa Peretti name to me. It is a very good balance for me to try and create with the person in mind or with the space in mind - to imagine a bowl of fruit or something for water. It is a little bit yin and yang.
Elsa Peretti
#32. I am looking at you and you are looking at me. This is very good. I am looking and I am liking. You are looking and you are thinking, 'I hope she doesn't hit me with her crop.' But that is because I am me and you are you.
Louise Rennison
#33. If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#34. The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.
Henry David Thoreau
#35. Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.
Boris Becker
#36. Neymar is undoubtedly the best player in Brazil. He deserves to play in the best team in the world; next to the best player in the world, Messi.He is a very good player with great quality and a great future.I have no doubt. For me, Neymar is a genius.
Pele
#37. At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
Rudy Rucker
#38. did she love you?
only as an extension of herself.
what else can love be?
the common sense to care very much for something very good. it needn't be related by bloodline. it can be a red beachball or a piece of buttered toast.
Charles Bukowski
#39. The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
Noam Chomsky
#40. Is that it?"
"No. That's a wall."
"It could be disguised."
"You're not very good at looking for things, are you?"
"I'm good at looking for walls. Look, I found another one.
Derek Landy
#41. It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#42. I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more experimental writing, more literary writing, riskier writing. It wasn't all imitation Heinlein or Asimov. And of course, women were creeping in, infiltrating. Infesting the premises.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#43. For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.
Daniel Radcliffe
#44. I try to eat vegetarian, though I'm not very good at it, and it's a work in progress. But we basically are what we eat. Eat fat, and there's fat in your body. Eat protein, and there's protein in your body. Eat magic, and there's magic in your body.
Greg Van Eekhout
#45. I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.
Calista Flockhart
#46. Thank you, Daniel, that is very good to know. But if staying here means working within 10 yards of you, frankly, I'd rather have a job wiping Saddam Hussein's arse.
Helen Fielding
#47. I had to admit the man looked amazing in jeans. The ancient denim clung lightly to his hips and followed the long lines of some remarkable thigh muscles. And although I made a point of not checking out his rear view, my peripheral vision was having a very good day." ~ Haven Travis on Hardy Cates
Lisa Kleypas
#48. I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
Edith Sitwell
#49. But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
John Cleese
#50. I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.
Deborah Kerr
#51. I think this is a very good look at how to tackle this effort. The resources and the talent are here, but now we've got to move forward with some sort of direction.
Alvin Williams
#52. The online environment is unique, and that's a very good thing. Rather than be judged by what they look like or their ability to speak in front of a crowd, people are judged by the merit of their ideas and words.
L. H. Cosway
#53. If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.
Barack Obama
#54. It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.
Bon Scott
#55. Very, very good Pavlov, all your dogs have barked when you rang the bell. Your test was successful.
Triple H
#56. Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.
Jodi Picoult
#57. My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#58. A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.
David Bonderman
#59. The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.
Gary McCord
#60. Indeed, Dr Haxhausen fought to preserve his freedom with very good reason, for he required a great deal of it - freedom, not reason - to pursue his plans for the future.
Thomas Ligotti
#61. I'm here to tell you that I am proud of a couple of things. First, I am very good at projectile vomiting. Second, I've never had a really serious venereal disease.
Herb Kelleher
#62. Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
Imran Khan
#63. I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#64. There is an access to ... people can now afford very high quality technology, where you can have a very good reproduction of a large picture on a large screen at home. People go out less. I don't know that it's going to stay that way but, I think also, we've got to start making better movies.
Ridley Scott
#65. I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing.
Anastasia Myskina
#66. Now I am a diviner, though not a very good one, but I have enough religion for my own use, as you might say of a bad writer - his writing is good enough for him; and
Plato
#67. If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
James Boswell
#68. My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.
Billy Graham
#69. The bells are a very good investment. They never break if they are maintained. I can teach the kids the basics. They may play bells for only one year, but many of them go on to play at local churches.
Dan Gable
#70. Implementation inheritance is a very good example for adding much conceptual complexity without giving us the full power of the ideas it builds upon.
Anonymous
#71. There are only so many people capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing. When it became possible to earn a very good living in advertising by exercising this capability, lyric poetry was left to untalented screwballs who had to shriek for attention and compete by eccentricity.
C.M. Kornbluth
#72. The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.
Martin Filler
#73. I tell you why I don't think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don't think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.
Ben Stein
#74. I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.
Paul Simon
#75. There's nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it's basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.
Tom Holt
#76. He saw his coming death, and wasn't afraid of it anymore. He'd miss all the good stuff to follow, but he'd help make it happen. And a very good person loved him. It was more than most people got in a lifetime.
James S.A. Corey
#77. Thank heavens when the first single Bye Bye came off this album work started to pick up, then I'm Alright has taken us across the world. Radio has been very good, it has chosen to be kind to us.
Jo Dee Messina
#78. I think we're going to win a very good share of those delegates. I think you've got major states coming up. And I think the important point is that people throughout this country are resonating to our message.
Bernie Sanders
#79. I'm not used to be the adult. I'm not very good at being the adult. To some regard, I wanted to just hang out and joke around, like I would normally, but I had to try to find the movie to shoot.
Jamie Linden
#80. We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.
John Hawley
#81. If you have that group of people who are both nice and also creative, then you have surprises like a room with monkeys in them. That has taken a very good scene and just made it a great scene. I want my movies to be visually interesting and to have a lot of energy and be colorful and full of life.
Richard Shepard
#82. I'm not a writer, but I'm very good at editing. That's my specialty. I can read something and tell you everything that's wrong with it and what's great about it and what needs to change, but it's hard for me to organize my thoughts.
Tracy Pollan
#83. I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me.
Erin McKeown
#84. Having sex with friends seems like a very good idea until suddenly it doesn't.
Marshall Thornton
#85. I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously ...
Norman Mailer
#86. The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
Saint Augustine
#87. You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee.
Rob Thurman
#88. There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.
Silvio Scaglia
#89. I am very good at what I do. I am better at it than anybody else.
Olivia
#90. She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments.
David Benioff
#91. Donald Trump is appealing to, that whole expression, everybody who asked me, why is Trump able to win in those 16 people? There's a whole expression. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. I'm not very good at prognosticating but I would not be surprised if he's the nominee.
Joe Biden
#92. Buffalo rib-eye steaks, on the grill, is my favorite meal, seriously. It has less fat, more vitamins and more protein than beef. It is wonderful. Look, it was what the Indians ate, and they were very healthy. It's very good meat.
Terry Crews
#93. The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.
Agyness Deyn
#94. Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.
Simon Blackburn
#95. I was never very good at history, but I was pretty sure douchebags like Hitler didn't laugh very much.
Rick Yancey
#96. If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.
Harold Macmillan
#97. I loved every minute of working in wardrobe. But I love being an actress so much more. I don't think I was very good in costume, so it's better that I prefer being an actress.
Katie McGrath
#98. To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.
Kenzaburo Oe
#99. The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll get a few screams and you're okay. With a comedy, if they don't laugh, you're dead.
Roger Corman
#100. The 1986 tax act is sort of the unsung hero of the very good economic times we had for a long time. Of course, politics gums it all up again and preferences get put in.
George P. Shultz
