Good Quotes

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

~ Diplo

I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.

~ Diane Kruger

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

~ Bo Bennett

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.

~ Domhnall Gleeson

I think anytime with your mom, whether she's famous or not, you're watching what she's doing when you're growing up. She also taught me the basics: Make sure you use a good moisturizing shampoo and conditioner, and then use a detangler to comb through your hair. And don't overdo the heat styling.

~ Jillian Hervey

I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.

~ Nate Berkus

I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.

~ Donald Hall

Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good.

~ Neil Peart

It's no good singing if you just want to be a pop star; you've got to work at it and do it for the love for it, not because you think it will make you famous.

~ Bonnie Tyler

I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing.

~ Hanna Rosin

Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.

~ Big Sean

The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.

~ Seth Rogen

I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.

~ A. R. Rahman

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

~ Richard Russo

We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the Internet if their world looks good on Tumblr. And so everyone at high school strives for this kind of aesthetic correctness.

~ Lorde

The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy.

~ Oliver North

My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour for RCA. Then she made the mistake of marrying me. The next year, another tour, but the third year, she had Mario and said, 'Either I'm a mother or a singer.'

~ Sirio Maccioni

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.

~ Glenn Hughes

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

~ John Ruskin

The good man is the friend of all living things.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

~ Ann Voskamp

Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.

~ Mahendra Singh Dhoni

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

~ E. M. Forster

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

~ John Muir

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

~ Ted Williams

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

~ Plato

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.

~ Orison Swett Marden

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

~ Marcus Aurelius

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

~ William Shakespeare

I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.

~ Cecilia Bartoli

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

~ Anatole France

You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

~ Washington Irving

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.

~ Maria Semple

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

~ Marcus Aurelius

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

~ Thomas Carlyle

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

~ James F. Cooper

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

~ William Cowper