A Quotes
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“A good craftsman is one who gives right to his work. When he starts his work, he must focus on it. If he wants to own his craft, he must give it its right of time and effort to gain skills, and with time he works and learns. He is not called a teacher, because he always learns throughout his life”
“A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time.”
“A good cricketer knows which ball to play and which ball to leave. Don't react and comment on everything that comes your way.”
“A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.”
“A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.”
“A good critic is trying to tell you what she has learned about herself from the reading of a particular piece of literature. A bad reviewer is often trying to tell you how smart he is by declaring whether or not he liked a particular book. If he liked the book, then this is the kind of book a superior person likes, and vice versa. He might try to explain why he didn’t like it, but the review is really just a tautology. “I didn’t like this book because it is bad,” is equivalent to “This book is bad because I didn’t like it.”
“A good crowd had formed along the sidewalk and the concrete ledge that bordered Louis Armstrong Park. The anticipation was dizzying...New Orleans had the big-boy parades and [Jackson & Billy] couldn't wait to attend a second line...”
Source: Imogene in New Orleans
“A good cry can be wonderful sometimes, and sadness is nothing more than love announced. Sadness and Unhappiness are not the same thing, and it is good to remember that. And there is this: sadness cleanses the heart.”
“A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.”
“A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.”
“A good cup of coffee makes life feel better.”
Source: Indigo Diaries: A Series of Novels
“A good cup of coffee makes life seem better.”
Source: Indigo Diaries: A Series of Novels
“A good cup of Earl Grey tea - you cant beat it.”
“A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.”
“A good dancer changes the way dancing was thought after he left the floor.”
“A good dancer is an educated one, so dont abandon school.”
“A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps. Anyone who aspires to dance never thinks about what he is going to do. What he cares about is that he follows the music. You see, we are painters. We paint the music with our feet.”
“A good date is when you are intoxicated with each other’s company and everything becomes good in the world.”
“A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.”
“A good day is a day when you know how to smile ... because you are free to feel and live the way you want ...”
“A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.”
“A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.”
“A good day is when no one shows up and you don't have to go anywhere.”
“A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.”
“A good deal is a state of mind.”
“a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children.”
“A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.”
Source: In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture
“A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.”
Source: Notes towards the Definition of Culture
“A good deal of editing a manuscript looks like mechanical work, as if anyone with time on their hands and a magnifying glass could do it. But at a certain point, you need a strong interpretive conviction and, as you say, an "intangible" relationship to what you are doing.”
“A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.”
“A good deal of large and rather interesting work is drifting my way.”
“A good deal of literature on the subject of women's power states that men are afraid of women's power. I always want to exclaim, "Mother of God! So many women themselves are afraid of women's power.”
Source: Women Who Run With the Wolves
“A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of a kind that physicists use and trying to fit them together in an interesting way, regardless of any application that the work may have. It is simply a search for pretty mathematics. It may turn out later to have an application. Then one has good luck. At age 78.”
“A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.”
“A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.”
Source: The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations
“A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in history, and judgement upon the pious. An authentic prophet can be a radical critic of spurious piety, of sham spirituality.”
Source: The Prophethood of All Believers
“A good deal of time spent researching this book might well have been wasted and valuable opportunities missed if it had not been for the help and suggestions of archivists and librarians.”
“A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.”
Source: Crystal Eastman on women and revolution
“A good death does honour to a whole life.”
“A good death follows a life lived honorably, which may mean living a truth outside of civilized norms.”
Source: Modern Masculinity for the Conscious Man: Making Sense in Troubled Times
“A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity.”
“A good debater can be a good communicator. You have to communicate when you're president of the United States, and communicate effectively with the American people, and with the world.”
“A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.”
Source: The Unmaking of a Mayor
“A good decision cannot guarantee a good outcome. All real decisions are made under uncertainty. A decision is therefore a bet, and evaluating it as good or not must depend on the stakes and the odds, not on the outcome.”
“A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.”
Source: The Dialogues of Plato
“A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.”
“A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.”
“A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.”
“A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.”
“A good deed hidden in silence dies.”