Good Quotes

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

See, I don't know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea.

The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.

I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better p

Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.

I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.

I'm a good person.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head.

A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on.

I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.

Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.

I'm not saying that what the radio plays isn't good. My issue is with what they don't play. You can play Jay-Z, but why don't you play Jurassic 5? You can play Nas and Nelly, but why don't you play J-Live? I want to open up the door to how it was back in the day.

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league.

I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.