Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. H. Lawrence

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.

David Henry Hwang

I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it's just me in charge, but sometimes it's just really - I think that there's honor in being a good artist, and there's honor in being a good 'craftsperson.'

Don Johnson

It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor.

Dixie Carter

It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.

Diane Warren

I thought I was good before I had any right to. But I think you got to feel that way. You got to think that. I wasn't delusional. I knew I had talent.

Charlie Pierce

Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way - and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we're really good at politically any more.

Claudius

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Doris Lessing

You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.

Debi Mazar

You know, you kind of lose some self-confidence after having kids because you'll never be the way you were. But I feel good.

Eve Best

I don't read reviews. I find them very distracting, whether they're good or bad.

Ed Skrein

I like having my back against the wall and doing things I'm not supposed to be good at.

Ian Harding

I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid.

Isabel Allende

If I had to choose between a relative and a good story, I would take the story.

Hulk Hogan

I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.

Howard Schultz

I always saw myself wanting to do something deemed successful and good at the same time.

Hilary Mantel

Writing comes from that territory of being invalidated. But I had a sense of purpose, too. I wanted to stop apologising for my health, and I thought I might do some good.

Ed Westwick

It's always good to be around nice-looking people.

Eli Broad

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

Francis Ford Coppola

We do things for good reasons that are bad.

Fred Couples

I'm not very good in the rain. I don't wear a golf glove.

Fred Armisen

Bill Hader does a really good impression of me.

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

Good taste doesn't exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it.

Francis Lee

You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

P. J. O'Rourke

The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.

Marianne Williamson

Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.

Peter Laviolette

We have a lot of different kind of guys in the locker room, but not a lot of guys who are 6-4 and as tough to move as Joe. He's a big guy who really protects that puck, and he's tough to get off of it. He's a skill player, so he should be a good addition.

Michael Huffington

We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people.

We only have one male member of staff. It is good for us to get male parents in.

We only had one off swim, everything else was a PR or season-best swim for us. It was a good meet for us.

Avery Johnson

We obviously have been playing some pretty good basketball. We knew we were on a streak. In my mind you don't think it's ever going to come to an end. When it does it just doesn't feel good.

We performed well, but obviously Ohio State is a good team, they are tied for second with us (in the rankings). It was neck and neck; this meet they just performed better.