Top 100 Was Good Quotes
#1. Whoever said confession was good for the soul hadn't been forced to take one after half a night's sleep.
Sabrina Jeffries
#2. I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good.
Branch Rickey
#3. Asylum was good exposure for me and it is still shown quite often on television. I remember the special effects people had fun making a little doll that looked like me - which is not so easy - and it had to move along the floor.
Herbert Lom
#4. He lies to himself the way he lies to me. He believes this. He actually believes that he was good to me.
Paula Hawkins
#5. He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up all the romance that her age and environment led her to desire
F Scott Fitzgerald
#6. When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.
Trevor Rabin
#7. Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was in the poet's saddle and riding that horse like she owned it. She was good! I probably ruined her by showing her how to make an E chord without the 3rd though.
Ray Wylie Hubbard
#8. In short, this or that behavior wasn't good because scripture said so. Scripture mandated this or that behavior because it was good, and if it was already good before scripture said so, then it was good for some reason inherent to itself, some reason that reason could discover.
Tamim Ansary
#9. Life was good. Everything was going right. It was almost scaring him because usually when things were going this well it was the calm before the storm hit.
Michelle Sutton
#10. Meredith was good, so incredibly good, and Charles had fallen, without fireworks, for that goodness. But goodness did not transfer. Being with someone good does not make you good. This it would take years for Charles to comprehend.
Mai Al-Nakib
#11. Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed - or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.
Patricia Briggs
#12. It wasn't an easy, sweet kiss like I'd imagined my first would be, but frustrated and hungry. That was good, better than easy and sweet, because after everything, I was frustrated and hungry for him, too.
Jodi Meadows
#13. Only one condom," he reminded her. "We used the other a few hours ago. We'll have to get creative."
Thank God. He was good at creative. Really, really good.
Jill Shalvis
#14. My mother was good at that, making people feel normal. Safe. Like as long as she was there, nothing truly bad could happen.
Jenny Han
#15. It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.
Judi Dench
#16. The universe was good because he was in it.
E. Lockhart
#17. They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.
Chris LeDoux
#18. Nick's lips twitched. "How long did you practice that before you came out here?" "About an hour," Kelly answered, breaking into a smile. "Was it good? How'd I do?" Nick nodded. "It was good.
Abigail Roux
#19. He smiled. A sub shouldn't be terrified, but a little anxiety was good.
Cherise Sinclair
#20. The villagers marked the time in two ways: before the swamp and after. What came before was good. And all that came after was not.
Melanie Crowder
#21. I'm proud of what I've achieved in cricket, as once I didn't think I was good enough.
Shane Warne
#22. He was good. He was good, and she didn't want to lose him.
Rainbow Rowell
#23. He would not come again. This was good. No. This was bad. At least it was an end.
Monica Ali
#24. Brother Gains wasn't the cook because he was good at cooking. He was just bad at everything else.
Mark Lawrence
#25. Down the corridor was not back into the bedroom, which was good ... Okay, she had to argue with her ovaries on that one, since all her feminine instincts were clamoring for her to climb tall, alien, and handsome like a frigging tree.
Mina Carter
#26. The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her ... She is Molly.
Phillip Noyce
#27. You have to change musically. Bubble gum pop was good for the first time you have sex. They didn't want to give the OK on some really good music. It was the frustration of being signed to that label. I was depressed.
Leif Garrett
#28. It made her want to stand up next to him and fight. Fight to stay alive long enough to live out her life next to him. Fight for the only thing she knew that was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be, worth risking everything.
Love.
Lauren Kate
#29. I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.
Sam Waterston
#30. It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.
Elizabeth Kostova
#31. Hayato Hayama [. . .] Basically, he was good-looking and stylish in a casual way. Fuck that guy.
Wataru Watari
#32. You had
so much love, and so much forgiveness, and so much faith. So I started to think that maybe I was worth that faith. That I didn't have to be perfect; I had to try, and that was good enough.
Cassandra Clare
#33. I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.
Bridgette Wilson
#34. Are you ready?"
"To strip that dress off you."
God, he was good for her self-esteem. This guy would never choose TV and beer over her.
Ava Gray
#36. How could filling in a bunch of blanks and writing a fluffy essay about the 'moment of significance' in my life let them know if I was good enough to go here?
Laurie Halse Anderson
#37. Think of me,' she said because it seemed like something a girl in a fairy tale might say. Think of me. Remember me. Love me. Turn me into a story you tell again and again. The sister who was good as gold and became a queen.
Jennifer McMahon
#38. You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn't even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer.
Barry Sanders
#39. When I was younger, I was worried about how others viewed me and if I was good enough. I realize now that you can't mold an image or try to be something that you are not. As far as being an actor is concerned, your work really speaks for itself.
River Phoenix
#40. She stared at his handsome face.
He was good-looking. No doubt about it.
But he was crazy as a loon
Kristen Ashley
#41. Lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!
Rick Riordan
#42. When the pieces fell around him, he'd pick them up.
It was what he was good at, after all.
Restoring what was once lost, what could never be perfectly whole again.
Carrie Ann Ryan
#43. It was good to be admired for something. Everyone should feel that way sometimes, he thought.
Alex London
#44. I hated the summer jobs I had when I was a teenager. They were so mundane and repetitious, they deadened my soul. On the bright side, it was good training for this job.
Craig Ferguson
#45. And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish something together who were all acting together as one - that's the most exciting time for me.
Liza Minnelli
#46. If you do something and it saves your life, it was good
taijutsu. In a real fight, you aren't worried about what's
pretty.
Masaaki Hatsumi
#47. The Carousel of Progress was a physical representation of Walt's personal philosophy that people, despite their foibles, were basically decent, and that life was good in any era and would only keep getting better.
Jim Korkis
#48. Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.
Lee Westwood
#49. Even though I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a writer, this conviction was completely independent of my having ever written anything, or being able to imagine ever writing anything, that I thought anyone would like to read.
Elif Batuman
#50. In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering - which was a nightmare scenario for me. Meeting other artists and going to punk rock shows at that age, there was a feeling of freedom and community that I wanted to partake in.
Laura Owens
#51. Everyone is so desensitised that the potency of artfully deployed italics has long been lost. It was good enough for H. P. Lovecraft, but apparently it isn't good enough for the modern world, filled as it is with obtuse bastards.
Jonathan L. Howard
#52. I tried not to stare at his body because I already knew it was good. Instead I focused on his eyes.
Robert J. Crane
#53. My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.
Daniel Bruhl
#54. The two of them were at a table, eating cereal. The kind with lots of marshmallows that lied and said it was good for you on the package.
James Dashner
#55. I saw the first episode of "The Walking Dead," and that's all I've seen. I thought it was good. I used to love zombies when I was little, but I don't like them the way I used to. I'm not knocking the show.
James Patterson
#56. Richard didn't mind Gwyn being rich ... Having always been poor was good preparation for being rich. Better than having always been rich ... The well and all its sweet water would surely one day run dry.
Martin Amis
#57. She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.
Ann Brashares
#58. After making love I said to my girl, "Was it good for you too?" And she said, "I don't think this was good for anybody."
Garry Shandling
#59. I had no idea when I went to college what I'd be doing. I took organic chemistry and did terribly, but I was good in English and art. I took many courses and participated in as many activities as I could. I learned a lot about every single thing.
Martha Stewart
#60. I was sad but it felt like the sadness was pouring out of me instead of poisoning me. I felt like I had been sleeping in the dark, not knowing I was in a coffin until someone pried the lid off. It hurt, but it was good, the way love is supposed to be.
Elliott James
#61. The problem is that this search for the perfect person can generate a lot of stress. Younger generations face immense pressure to find the "perfect person" that simply didn't exist in the past when "good enough" was good enough. When they're successful, though, the payoff is incredible.
Aziz Ansari
#62. When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
Facundo Pieres
#63. For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.
Thomas Keller
#64. I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.
Sarah McLachlan
#65. They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.
William Golding
#66. The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.
Charles Bukowski
#67. He rocked her against him. "No idea what I'm going to do with you."
She didn't know what he was going to do with her either, but she hoped it was good.
Jill Shalvis
#68. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.
J.K. Rowling
#69. Aging is a chance to make what was good, great; and what was never so good, better.
Amy Bloom
#70. No, no. I was on America's Top Model. It was good. Yeah, I was up there, I wore a dress. It was awesome.
Blake Lewis
#71. The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.
Dizzy Dean
#72. English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.
Miriam A. Ferguson
#73. She didn't like to admit it about her own kin, least about her own brother, but there he was - good for absolutely nothing.
Flannery O'Connor
#74. The world would find them anyway. It was good at these kinds of games.
Brandon Sanderson
#75. There was good in him. Raw, molten goodness, bubbling deep in his core. But he didn't possess the charm or manners to control it. It just erupted periodically in volcano fashion, startling anyone who happened to be nearby.
Tessa Dare
#76. Marla had always been better at tearing things apart, at least in a physical level (though she liked to think she was good at building more theoretical things, like the complex structure of loyalty, fear, and obligation that kept things running back home).
Tim Pratt
#77. She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
Anne Tyler
#78. He took another quick swallow of the coffee. Tasted awful to him, though it was good coffee, he'd brewed it himself. A beer was what he wanted. Not to have a beer right now was like not breathing. But it was just too great a risk.
Anne Rice
#79. He stood right in front of me and pinched my arm and said, Can I see your room?
Such relief. Even the pinch was good. I understood completely about needing to hurt someone at the same time that you are giving them something.
Miranda July
#80. Falls. He saw her bright, fierce little face break into laughter when the crowd laughed. It was good. Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works. THAT
Paulette Jiles
#81. My mum translated this in her head to "witchfinder," which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman.
Ben Aaronovitch
#82. It would have been an interesting run if we hadn't gotten along! It was good casting, I suppose.
Dominic West
#83. If what Jesus said was good, and so much of it was absolutely beautiful, what does it matter if he was God or not?
Kurt Vonnegut
#84. Well I am from Annapolis Maryland. I went to High school in Baltimore, but I grew up in Annapolis. It was a cute town. We lived on a waterfront community. It was good, even though I don't really fit the preppy boater kind of style.
Christian Siriano
#85. Although everyone knew it as freedom from the laws of Islam, no one was quite sure what else westernization was good for.
Orhan Pamuk
#86. From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's new discovery. They knew the secret too. They knew thin was good, thin was strong; thin was safe.
Steven Levenkron
#87. It was good to travel to the other side of the world.
Andre Braugher
#88. We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way.
Lewis Thomas
#89. I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for.
Michael Graves
#90. They drummed into you that pain was good, you were supposed to go with it, push into the pain, and only ... now ... did I contemplate what retarded advice this was.
Lionel Shriver
#91. I wish this knife was good for something besides death, that I could cut through time and walk into that house, into that kitchen where he trapped her, and get her out of there. I would make sure she had the future she should have had.
Kendare Blake
#92. People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.
Steve Nash
#93. Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#94. My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be.
Naima Adedapo
#95. I wasn't afraid of being poor; I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I couldn't imagine sacrificing my writing to anything else.
Marge Piercy
#96. Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.
Kristin Cast
#97. I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.
Peter Capaldi
#98. Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don't have a price tag.
Bear Grylls
#99. Laurent said, 'I didn't think anyone was good enough to get past your guard.' 'One person,' said Damen.
C.S. Pacat
#100. God, he could be a prick. A moody, stubborn prick who I would avoid if I knew what was good for me.
It seemed I never quite learnt my lessons very well in life.
Nina Levine
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