A Quotes
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“A good motto to live by: "Always try not to get killed.”
“A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something that speaks to you, then it isn’t all corruption. The movie doesn’t have to be great; it can be stupid and empty and you can still have the joy of a good performance, or the joy in just a good line. An actor’s scowl, a small subversive gesture, a dirty remark that someone tosses off with a mock-innocent face, and the world makes a little bit of sense. Sitting there alone or painfully alone because those with you do not react as you do, you know there must be others perhaps in this very theatre or in this city, surely in other theatres in other cities, now, in the past or future, who react as you do. And because movies are the most total and encompassing art form we have, these reactions can seem the most personal and, maybe the most important, imaginable. The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen. You do meet them, of course, and you know each other at once because you talk less about good movies than about what you love in bad movies.”
Source: For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies
“A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.”
“A good movie humanizes people.”
“A good movie is a movie that you could see over and over again, not a movie that wins a Oscar, or a movie that makes a lot of money. It's a movie that you personally can watch over and over again. That, to me, is a measure of a good movie.”
“A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.”
“A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene.”
“A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.”
“A good musician can do more to change society than 30 average mayors.”
“A good musician should say: We can live without air but not without music!”
“A good Muslim is not one who is strictest in his judgment, but who is most patient in listening.”
“A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.”
“A good nail does not fear being hammered.”
“A good name for a gang would be The Uneducated Idiot Tough Guys.”
“A good name is better than bags of gold.”
Source: Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha
“A good name is better than precious ointment.”
“A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.”
Source: The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral: and The Wisdom of the Ancients
“A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.”
“A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.”
“A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost.”
“A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.”
“A good name is still to be preferred to great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.”
“A good name is what is given you by others and that which has been earned by you.”
“A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.”
“A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.”
Source: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
“A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.”
“A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.”
Source: Fear God and Take Your Own Part
“A good negotiator flatters the seller not the product.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A good negotiator sometimes win more out of a deal than he expected.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.”
“A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1789-1792
“A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.”
Source: The Poetical Works of
“A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.”
“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”
“A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.”
“A good night's sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work.”
“A good NO is better than a bad YES every time!”
“A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.”
“A good novel can be a doorstop to despair.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.”
“A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.”
“A good novel editor is invisible.”
“A good novel invites us to walk in the shoes of others, to explore the vast tapestry of human existence. The pleasure of reading is an invitation to broaden our horizons and deepen our understanding.”
Source: The Last King of Turkey: The Revelation of the Antichrist - Dusk - #1 Of The 666 Trilogy
“A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.”
“A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.”
“A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so. Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.”
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“A good novel is the one which is well-researched on the topic that revolves around the novel.”
Source: The Chocolate Cake
“A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.”
“A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.”