Good Quotes

What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.

~ Victoria Beckham

Working for President Nixon was the most extraordinary professional experience of my life. He was endlessly fascinating: brilliant, visionary, kind, generous, warm, funny - and yes, a good man.

~ Monica Crowley

The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.

~ Miranda Otto

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

~ Marlon Wayans

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

~ Howard Stern

My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.

~ Michael Cera

If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.

~ Jason Statham

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I'm just too weird to be in a relationship.

~ Diane Warren

I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows.

~ Kristen Schaal

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

~ Quincy Jones

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.

~ Larry Mcmurtry

I've got an overactive brain. I enjoy work, I enjoy life, and I'm not good at relaxing. I've also never slept very much due to this overactive imagination and my brain constantly thinking.

~ Rick Wakeman

Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue.

~ Ridley Scott

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.

~ Oscar Wilde

If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination. If I fantasise about winning the lottery, it doesn't take long before all sorts of worrisome potential consequences occur to me.

~ Julian Baggini

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that.

~ Carol Burnett

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

~ Michael Pena

I wouldn't say I have comedy chops. I guess you get lucky with good writing because I don't think I'm a comedian by any stretch of the imagination.

~ Michael Pena

I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That's acting.

~ Kristen Stewart

I had a good imagination and I still have one a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

~ Laura Linney

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

~ Eric Bana

There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.

~ Antony Beevor

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

~ Malorie Blackman

My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live.

~ Keeley Hawes

The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.

~ Henry Moore

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

~ Alexander Calder

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

~ Salvador Dalí

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

~ Truman Capote

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

~ Jonathan Swift

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

~ Barbra Streisand

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

~ Pythagoras

In art the best is good enough.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

~ Mary Schmich

All good art is an indiscretion.

~ Tennessee Williams

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

~ Ezra Pound

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.

~ Frank Stella

One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago.

~ Steve Kanaly

Every good painter paints what he is.

~ Jackson Pollock