Good Quotes

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A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act… — Augustine Birrell
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. — Jim Bishop
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. — Otto von Bismarck
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. — Daniel Boone
A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me… — Jacqueline Bisset
I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very… — Jacqueline Bisset
I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. — Jacqueline Bisset
You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting. — Jacqueline Bisset
Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood. — Jacqueline Bisset
I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if… — Sade Adu
I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really… — Jack Black
When you're fund-raising for schools, then something's wrong. We seem to have lost some sort of sense of what the common good is, and if… — Lewis Black
A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good. — Bhumibol Adulyadej
When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised. — Ritchie Blackmore
The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal. — Ritchie Blackmore
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. — William Blackstone
Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the… — Rod Blagojevich
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. — Aeschylus
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. — Aeschylus
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. — Aeschylus

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