All Quotes

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.
‐‐ Martin Gardner

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
‐‐ Alexander Pope

A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!
‐‐ Charles Anthon

A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.
‐‐ Rachel Griffiths

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.
‐‐ Frank Butler

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
‐‐ Jean Giraudoux

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.
‐‐ Thomas Friedman

A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.
‐‐ Bela Karolyi

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
‐‐ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
‐‐ Bruce Davison

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.
‐‐ Ivan Reitman

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
‐‐ Jean Anouilh

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
‐‐ Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

A good ad which is not run never produces sales.
‐‐ Leo Burnett

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
‐‐ David Ogilvy

A good agent will sometimes need to be a scrapper, and that's the one you want.
‐‐ Mark Billingham

A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
‐‐ Vanessa Hudgens

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
‐‐ Ali Smith

A good artist has less time than ideas.
‐‐ Martin Kippenberger

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
‐‐ Orson Welles

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
‐‐ Frank Shorter

A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.
‐‐ Imre Kertesz

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.
‐‐ Andrew Shue

A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.
‐‐ Ronnie Hawkins

A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.
‐‐ Leo Burnett

A good bassist determines the direction of any band.
‐‐ Ron Carter

A good beginning makes a good end.
‐‐ Louis L'Amour

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
‐‐ Oswald Chambers

A good book is a good book. End of story.
‐‐ Malorie Blackman

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
‐‐ Martin Farquhar Tupper

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
‐‐ John Milton

A good book ought to bring out lots of different responses from those that read it - none of them pre-planned, and all of them very personal. Whatever they take away from the reading of the book is valuable.
‐‐ Sharon Draper

A good book written for children can be read by adults.
‐‐ Norton Juster

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
‐‐ Charles Erwin Wilson

A good boxer, in striking the round blow, instead of loosening body and arm, gathers himself into a heap of muscularity and begins his blow where all blows ought to begin, from the solidarity of the right foot.
‐‐ John Boyle O'Reilly

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.
‐‐ Robert Baden-Powell

A good breeder or experienced rescue agency wants you to prove that you'll be a capable caretaker. The interrogation and screening can be annoying, but it's also a sign that you're on the right track. A breeder ought to know if you work long hours away from home, have a fenced yard, have kids or other animals, or if you have access to parks.
‐‐ Jon Katz

A good browser, apps, good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone is just expected today.
‐‐ Thorsten Heins

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
‐‐ Dalton Trumbo

A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.
‐‐ Carson Daly

A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.
‐‐ Blanka Vlasic

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!
‐‐ Pope Francis

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the universe, no matter how they assail it. It will stand, and it will stand firmer and grander the more it is assaulted.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

A good choreographer is one that's going to collaborate, teach, guide - everything. The wonderful thing on 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' was that we had Philip Kwok - he choreographed John Woo's 'Hard Boiled,' and in the '70s, he was a martial arts actor, stunt man, fighter, choreographer in Hong Kong.
‐‐ Mark Dacascos

A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.
‐‐ Herb Caen