All Quotes

A good jolly is worth what you pay for it.
‐‐ George Ade

A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.
‐‐ Louise Penny

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.
‐‐ Todor Zhivkov

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
‐‐ John Lothrop Motley

A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.
‐‐ Richard Branson

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
‐‐ Bo Bennett

A good leader must be fair.
‐‐ Yao Ming

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.
‐‐ Anne Sweeney

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
‐‐ Arnold H. Glasow

A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously.
‐‐ Thomas P. O'Neill

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
‐‐ Katharine Whitehorn

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
‐‐ Kin Hubbard

A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.
‐‐ Olivia Wilde

A good love story always keeps the pot boiling.
‐‐ James Patterson

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
‐‐ Maxim Gorky

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
‐‐ Brigham Young

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.
‐‐ Georg Buchner

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
‐‐ Sallust

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
‐‐ Jane Fonda

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
‐‐ Ring Lardner

A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.
‐‐ Denise Richards

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
‐‐ Pearl S. Buck

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A good meal is very important to me. When I have a bad meal, especially out, it's like I'm sitting in an airport during a flight delay. It's a part of my life I can't get back.
‐‐ Josh Elliott

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
‐‐ Johannes Tauler

A good memory is needed after one has lied.
‐‐ Pierre Corneille

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
‐‐ Clifton Fadiman

A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
‐‐ Yves Saint Laurent

A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.
‐‐ Alice Walker

A good monetary policy follows inflationary expectations and not historical numbers.
‐‐ Adi Godrej

A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
‐‐ Frank Crane

A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.
‐‐ Abbas Kiarostami

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.
‐‐ Howard Hawks

A good movie makes the audience feel like they've journeyed with the characters.
‐‐ Rich Moore

A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.
‐‐ John Oates

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.
‐‐ King Solomon

A good nation I will make live.
‐‐ Black Elk

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
‐‐ Andrew O'Hagan

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
‐‐ Arthur Baer

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
‐‐ Arthur Miller