All Quotes

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
‐‐ Garrison Keillor

A good night in is a series of documentaries.
‐‐ Elizabeth Debicki

A good night's sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work.
‐‐ Chanel Iman

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.
‐‐ Julianna Baggott

A good novel editor is invisible.
‐‐ Terri Windling

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.
‐‐ Louise Penny

A good novel is an out-of-self experience. It lifts you off the ground so that you have the sensation of flying. It says, 'Look at the world around you; learn from the people in these pages, neither quite me nor quite you, how life is lived in so many different ways.'
‐‐ Julia Glass

A good novel is something that challenges perception, that allows you to see the world anew through a different point of view - something that genre fiction doesn't do, although it sells more because it doesn't disturb people's innate sense of what a novel should be about. Often, people want characters to be nice, for example.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
‐‐ Saul Bellow

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.
‐‐ Dana Spiotta

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
‐‐ Jim Rohn

A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.
‐‐ Taylor Kitsch

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
‐‐ Federico Fellini

A good organizer is key to anyone with a busy social life.
‐‐ Neil Strauss

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
‐‐ Hedy Lamarr

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.
‐‐ John Lasseter

A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great transformation in the way we think about the world, our history, our logic, mathematics, you name it. I think we would be greatly diminished as a people and as a culture if the book became obsolete.
‐‐ James Gleick

A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.
‐‐ John Krasinski

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
‐‐ Bhumibol Adulyadej

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
‐‐ Ansel Adams

A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.
‐‐ Cindy Margolis

A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.
‐‐ Chris Van Allsburg

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
‐‐ Vincent Van Gogh

A good place to start initially would be school plays.
‐‐ Sara Gilbert

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don't wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.
‐‐ Andy Weir

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
‐‐ George S. Patton

A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat yourself.
‐‐ Jim Drain

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.
‐‐ Howard Barker

A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.
‐‐ David Whyte

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.
‐‐ David Whyte

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
‐‐ Desiderius Erasmus

A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden 'worthless' land now has an airport on it.
‐‐ Neil Abercrombie

A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
‐‐ Ze Frank

A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'
‐‐ Eddie Van Halen

A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.
‐‐ Kajol

A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.
‐‐ Iain Duncan Smith

A good pump is a silhouette, like the bone structure of the face. It's like a beautiful face with no make-up. You can cover a not-so-beautiful face with make-up, but it is just a mask - it is the same with shoes.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
‐‐ James Boswell

A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.
‐‐ Erno Rubik

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
‐‐ Stan Getz

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
‐‐ John Ciardi

A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
‐‐ Paul Bryant

A good record transports you to another place.
‐‐ Ty Segall

A good reputation is more valuable than money.
‐‐ Publilius Syrus

A good restaurant just makes me giddy. I can go all day with anticipation just knowing where I'm going to eat. Sometimes it's well planned, sometimes it's spontaneous. Either way works.
‐‐ Gayle King