Good Quotes and Sayings

I was probably 21 or 22 years old when I realized the prose that I live by, which is, 'You get what you give.' The more good deeds that you could do in your life, the more fulfilling and enriched your life is going to be. I truly believe that.

Believe • Good • Life • Live • Probably • Prose • Years • Years Old • You

Good music makes you feel something.

Feel • Good • Good Music • Makes • Music • Something • You

I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.

Children • Day • Ego • Every Day • Fight • Good • Good People • Kind • People

A lot of concerts leave you wanting for something good to eat or drink while you're there.

Concerts • Drink • Eat • Good • Leave • Lot • Something Good • You

I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.

Anything • Concerts • Down • Eat • Good • Sad • Thought • You

I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care – not in a lasting way – about what's happening to them.

Victoria Elizabeth Schwab

Care • Characters • Enough • Firm Believer • Fun • Fun Enough • Good • Good Plot • I Am • Lasting Way • Way

The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.

Qorianka Kilcher

Action • Best • Better Place One • Courage • Fears • Good • Heart • Justice • Love • Planet • Things • Time • Truth

I've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your art good.

Nora K. Jemisin

Art • Artist • Contact • Good • Lot • Need • People • Writer • You

Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.

Abbey • Boardwalk • Book • Boss • British • Called • Fan • Good • Mad • Men • Otherwise • Real • Series • Shows • Think • Time • TV

I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure – however perfect they look – which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.

Enough • Figure • Good • Look • Perfect • Sad • Woman

If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.

Feel • Feel Good • Fitting Room • Good • Hesitation • Look • Walk • You

If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it, because you'll never look good.

Feel • Feel Good • Good • Look • Never • You

My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.

Art • Artist • Good • Music • Question • Who

I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

Better • Feel • Feel Good • Good • Trying

I am usually positive and optimistic. If I get stressed or some results are not so good, I let it go by thinking, 'Oh well, it can be better next time.' I don't worry a lot, and I'm not too serious about anything.

Go • Good • I Am • Optimistic • Positive • Thinking • Time

The most important thing is knowing what you are good at.

Good • Important • Important Thing • Knowing • Most • You

We always focus on the quality of music because as long as the content is good, then the interest will be there.

Content • Focus • Good • Interest • Long • Music • Quality • Will

I just try to look good always.

Always • Good • Just • Look • Try

When I don't look cool enough or when I cannot make good music anymore, I will retire.

Cool • Enough • Good • Good Music • Look • Music • Will

I stand on stage hoping to give good energy to the audience, but if I cannot give good energy anymore, I will have to leave right away.

Anymore • Audience • Energy • Good • Hoping • Leave • Stage • Stand • Will

Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?

Frederick Edwin Smith

Club • God • Good • Mean • Place • Say • You

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

Elwyn Brooks White

Farmer • Good • Good Farmer • Handy • Humus • Less • Man • More • Nothing • Sense

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Elwyn Brooks White

Comes • Friend • Good • Often • Someone • True • True Friend

I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.

C. C. H. Pounder

Callout • Caribbean • Completion • General • Good • I Am • Interested • Public • Rest • Stories • Way • World

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep… Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.

Anytime Something • Bad • Black • Black Monday • Christmas • Course Everything • Friday • Good • Good Stuff • Kinda Way • Little Black Sambo • Mississippi • Monday • School • Sheep • White

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.

Born • Day • Doing • Good • House • Live • Man • Money • Plantation • Things • Til • Word

Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here – like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things – but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.

Back • Blues • City • Different Places • Good • Greats • Guys • Jam • Jazzblues • Kansas • Lot • Places • Things • Think • Whenever

Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.

Audience • Good • Melody • Pretty • Singing • Songs • Story • Storytelling • Things • Think • Trying • You

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.

Good • Health • Myself • People • Today • Way

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

Chords • Good • Horrible

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

Down • Dress • Good • Good Blues Singer People • Money • People • You

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess – she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

Beautiful • Good • Guitar • Half • Known • Lady • Me • Mother • Nine • Player • She • Something

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

Able • Best • Children • Father • Fortunately • Good • Kids • Life • Onenighters • Road • Thing • Work

I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.

Best • God • Good • Guitarists • Lists • Myself • Seen • Thank God

I've been a loner all the time throughout my life… I haven't been the best father… Many times… my children have accused me of not giving them enough attention. And, frankly, I never have been good at handling that.

Best • Children • Father • Frankly • Good • Handling • Life • Loner • Many • Time • Times

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

Alan Alexander Milne

Get • Good • Letters • Places • Wobbly • Wrong

Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.

Anywhere • Construction • Country • Everything • Good • Me • Minimal • One • People • Quality • Time • World

China has created very good investment tools, including an entire network of very large funds. The Russian Private Investment Fund works with some of those funds, with China's largest investment funds.

China • Entire • Fund • Funds • Good • Good Investment • Investment • Largest • Network • Russian • Some • Tools

How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

Good • Loud • Loud Words • Money • Politician • Russia • Sake • Trusted • Trying • Words

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

Case • Childhood • Classic • Divorce • Good • Good Childhood • Me • Nine • Really

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

Along • Drugs • Everything • Good • Memory • Self-Respect • Selfesteem • Time • Waste