Good Quotes

A good romantic comedy is my favorite movie to watch.

~ Nicholas Stoller

I think the best romantic comedies are hard funny - no soft jokes, but ones that make you, like, guffaw. I also think that they have to make you feel good, ideally, and make you feel warm inside at the end.

~ Nicholas Stoller

Being a black woman, there's so many different sides of us. We are funny, silly, romantic, professional, smart, and we have good jobs.

~ Lauren London

I want to be romantic, and songs are a good way to do that.

~ Tobias Jesso

Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.

~ Jeanne Phillips

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

~ Margaret Anderson

Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.

~ Janet Street-Porter

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

~ Homer

I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.

~ Jewell Parker Rhodes

The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

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.

~ Elton John

I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time angry that she didn't give me the hugs I thought I needed, or I could understand that she hugs differently. It's not a spread-open-the-arms, 'come here' hug. She hugs by sheltering me from her worries.

~ Chandra Wilson

I kind of feel like we're all humans; we all live on this planet. I kind of always wish there was more of a partnership - a really healthy relationship between people, working together to do things and make it good and change.

~ Robert Coppola Schwartzman

For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.

~ Rafe Spall

Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.

~ Kate Middleton

I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.

~ Wilbur Smith

The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.

~ Chinua Achebe

I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God. I submit myself to His direct will, which is good and perfect with no evil in it.

~ T. B. Joshua

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

~ William Shakespeare

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

~ Amy Sedaris

That's the sign of a good relationship, when you can pick up a phone and it doesn't matter when the last time you spoke was.

~ Joe Torre

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

~ Marianne Faithfull

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

~ Jennifer Aniston

You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.

~ Victoria Justice

In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face. And that's really not a good instinct with a 'Daily Show' field piece, where it's supposed to be an interview.

~ John Oliver

In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

~ Barbara Lynn

I know someone young whose husband left her for another woman. He later came back and wanted to rekindle the relationship. It was too late. His ex-wife had found someone else. Good for her.

~ Alicia Villarreal

I have a good relationship with Lifetime.

~ Madchen Amick

Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit.

~ Amy Adams

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.

~ Ben Affleck

My father was on the Judiciary Committee all 18 years. He had a good personal relationship with Jim Eastland. They probably didn't agree on practically anything, or very little, from a public policy standpoint. But they were willing to work through that to see what they could get done just because they knew each other and liked each other.

~ Evan Bayh

A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.

~ John Lydon

Everybody goes through a period where you're fighting a lot, I think. Sometimes that can be a good thing for your relationship. That conflict can lead to making up.

~ Brad Paisley

If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.

~ Tim Tebow

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

I have to say when a man lives for himself, it's hard to live with him. That's pretty much the story of all my divorces. I've been making records since I was 22 and done things my way, and it's hard for me to compromise. And of course, to have a successful relationship, one has to compromise. Sometimes I'm not good at it.

~ John Mellencamp

I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.

~ Zubin Mehta

Several companies have explicit policies against cronyism, with good reason. Hiring a family member simply for a relationship can be troubling and may not necessarily serve a company's interests. But by and large, financial firms in particular commonly hire people who have certain connections, whether through family or a business relationship.

~ Andrew Ross Sorkin

My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.

~ Michael Haneke

If you are strong enough as a couple, reality shows can be a good thing for the relationship.

~ Giuliana Rancic