All Quotes

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.
‐‐ Colm Meaney

A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.
‐‐ Jason Mantzoukas

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.
‐‐ Michael Pena

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
‐‐ Igor Stravinsky

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
‐‐ Barack Obama

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

A good conscience is a continual feast.
‐‐ Robert Burton

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
‐‐ Thomas Babington Macaulay

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
‐‐ John Mason Brown

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
‐‐ Elsa Schiaparelli

A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach

A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music.
‐‐ Conway Twitty

A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members, has transparency and integrity, and creates provisions for challenging its leadership openly. A good cult expands the freedoms and well-being of its members rather than limits them.
‐‐ Philip Zimbardo

A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.
‐‐ Jo Brand

A good cup of Earl Grey tea - you can't beat it.
‐‐ Antonia Thomas

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
‐‐ Edward Steichen

A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.
‐‐ Deborah Bull

A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.
‐‐ Bob Beauprez

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

A good day is when no one shows up, and you don't have to go anywhere.
‐‐ Burt Shavitz

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.
‐‐ Crystal Eastman

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
‐‐ Plato

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

A good deed is a good deed.
‐‐ John Lee Hancock

A good deed is not just a duty, but above all, a privilege.
‐‐ Shari Arison

A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.
‐‐ David Bonderman

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don't really know what the final result will be before you have it.
‐‐ May-Britt Moser

A good designer has technical knowledge - don't treat her like someone who's there to decide whether something should be pink or orange.
‐‐ Jeffrey Zeldman

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
‐‐ Niklaus Wirth

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
‐‐ Kevin Bacon

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.
‐‐ Melanie Laurent

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
‐‐ Elia Kazan

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
‐‐ Saint Francis de Sales

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
‐‐ Kenneth Tynan

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
‐‐ Irwin Shaw

A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything - whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want.
‐‐ Kate Reardon

A good education is a foundation for a better future.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

A good education is another name for happiness.
‐‐ Ann Plato

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
‐‐ Ann Plato

A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
‐‐ Agnes de Mille

A good education should leave much to be desired.
‐‐ Alan Gregg

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
‐‐ Ice T

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.
‐‐ Helmut Jahn

A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even require that the candidate write a short program. In addition, it will test the candidate's knowledge of the tools she uses in great depth.
‐‐ Ben Horowitz

A good espresso to me is a little bit salty; you just become used to a good taste. Anytime I go into a new place and they don't clean their machine properly or the water temperature isn't right, it tastes awful.
‐‐ Andrew Bird

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf

A good example is far better than a good precept.
‐‐ Dwight L. Moody

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
‐‐ Lara St. John