A Quotes
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“A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times.”
Source: Disgrace
“A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.”
“A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.”
“A good person, striving dimly,
Is well aware of the right path.”
“A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“A good photograph emerges when emotion discovers its voice, and that voice is rendered visible, a testament to the alchemy of thought and feeling captured in light.”
Source: Landscape Dreams, A New Mexico Portrait
“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”
“A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.”
“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.”
“A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality.”
“A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see”
“A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, don’t see-see only what they have always seen and what they expect to see-where a photographer, if he’s good, will see everything. And better if he sees things he doesn’t expect to see.”
“A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.”
“A good physiological experiment like a good physical one requires that it should present anywhere, at any time, under identical conditions, the same certain and unequivocal phenomena that can always be confirmed.”
“A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.”
“A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.”
Source: The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin
“A good picture knows how to communicate the emotion that created it.”
“A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.”
“A good piece of art raises questions.”
“A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you.”
“A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for understanding. Good stories do not resolve the mysteries of the human spirit but rather describe and expand up on those mysteries.”
“A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.”
“A good Pile of Trash wins a favorite interest of a dustpan.”
“A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.”
“A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill they have introduced to repeal health care reform. The bill, titled the "Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act," was set to come up for a vote this week, but in the wake of Gabby's shooting, it has been postponed at least until next week. Don't get me wrong - I'm not suggesting that the name of that one piece of legislation somehow led to the horror of this weekend - but is it really necessary to put the word "killing" in the title of a major piece of legislation?”
“A good place to start initially would be school plays.”
“A good place to start is with the kids ... One of the great founding principles of our country was that children would not be punished for the mistakes of their parents. It is time to provide an opportunity for legal residence and citizenship for those who were brought to this country as children and who know no other home.”
“A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.”
“A good plan implemented quickly is always better than the best plan implemented too late or not at all.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“A good plan is like a road map: It shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.”
“A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.”
“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.”
“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
“A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not.”
Source: Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science
“A good platoon sergeant, in the lieutenant’s mind, ought act like Kato on 'The Green Hornet' and not a disapproving uncle with a taste for the strap.”
Source: Sinner's Cross
“A good play is a good play. If you want to chalk up your rejection letters to the fact that you're a woman, that's your choice. But often you get a rejection letter because your play isn't ready. Or the time isn't ready for your play. And that has nothing to do with gender.”
“A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.”
“A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.”
“A good player can make any guitar sound good.”
“A good player is always lucky.”
“A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer. A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one.”
“A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.”
“A good poem about failure is a success.”
Source: Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982
“A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but the child will surprise you continually. I think a work of art has its own aliveness, its own future.”
“A good poem is a contribution to reality.”
Source: On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts
“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
Source: On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts
“A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never before been spoken. The seedword is always so ordinary that hardly anyone perceives it. Classical odes grow from and or because, romantic lyrics from but and if. Immature verses expand a personal pronoun ad nauseam, the greatest works bring glory to a common verb. Good poems, therefore, are always close to banality, over which, however, they tower like precipices.”
“A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.”
“A good poem is not completely a poem until it has received a critical response that grows out of the poem in an almost biological way.”
“A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.”