Good quotes

“I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.” Paul McCartney

“We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.” Paul McCartney

“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.” Michelangelo

“I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.” Michelangelo

“Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.” Michelangelo

“The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.” Abraham Maslow

“I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.” Groucho Marx

“I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.” Groucho Marx

“A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.” Douglas MacArthur

“Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.” Douglas MacArthur

“'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.” Steve Martin

“I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music.” Steve Martin

“I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it.” Steve Martin

“Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, because it's just its own reward. It's sort of like heaven.” Steve Martin

“Good things happen to those who hustle.” Anais Nin

“A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'” Barack Obama

“I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.” Barack Obama

“We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.” Barack Obama

“If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.” Barack Obama

“One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.” Henry Miller

“Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'” Henry Miller

“It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.” Henry Miller

“Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.” Henry Miller

“The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.” Henry Miller

“Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.” Horace Mann

“Evil and good are God's right hand and left.” Horace Mann

“Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.” James Madison

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.” John Muir

“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

“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.” John Stuart Mill