Good Quotes

I don't know if there is a 'lack' of good black men. But when you haven't taken the time to get to know yourself, be OK with you, and articulate what it is you want in a relationship, then you can't possibly find that person for you because you don't even know what you're looking for.

~ Keshia Knight Pulliam

When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

~ Ted Dekker

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

~ Karlheinz Stockhausen

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

~ Keith Sweat

My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.

~ Trevor Phillips

We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems.

~ Jim Hunt

Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

~ David Lachapelle

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

~ Don Shula

I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success.

~ Mary Berry

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

~ Joe Paterno

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

~ Howard Nemerov

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

~ Johnny Depp

Lord knows, every day is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.

~ Reese Witherspoon

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

~ Herbert Spencer

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

~ Umberto Eco

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

~ Treat Williams

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

~ Jose Mourinho

We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.

~ Daley Thompson

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

~ Mindy Kaling

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.

~ Victoria Principal

I take great pride in all the tremendous success we've enjoyed at CBS. And the good news is that I feel even more enthusiastic about what my terrific team and I will accomplish going forward.

~ Leslie Moonves

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

~ Nikki Giovanni

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.

~ Judy Collins

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

~ Rita Dove

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.

~ James Laughlin

Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.

~ Louis Macneice

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

~ Maya Angelou

I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, 'You're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or something.' And I eventually went and got a, you know, somewhat of a name for myself and a little bit of a following.

~ Jill Scott

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.

~ David Mamet

I think of it this way: When you hear that people have downloaded your comic, appreciate that thousands are eager to hear what you have to say. The poetry club down the hall may not have the same problem. That's a good problem to have.

~ Mark Waid

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

~ Pink

Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

~ Vikram Seth

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

~ Robert Morgan

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

~ Robert Morgan

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

~ Asghar Farhadi

Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.

~ James Fenton

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.

~ James Fenton

Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.

~ Eileen Myles

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

~ Wislawa Szymborska

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

~ Wislawa Szymborska