Excellent Quotes - Page 5

• Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother

  Patricia Highsmith

  Mother, Humor, Affection

  8 Copy quote

• I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Thinking, Ideas

  24 Copy quote

• If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sports, Art, Mean

  7 Copy quote

• I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed.

  John Romero

  Thinking, People, Scary

  8 Copy quote

• I've seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent.

  David Prowse

  Revenge, Thinking, Sith

  7 Copy quote

• I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.

  Robert Sheckley

  Stars, War, Science

  7 Copy quote

• The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

  Quintilian

  Faults, Brilliant, Impression

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.1829, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Media, Brilliant

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

  David Crystal

  Relief, Swearing, Mechanism

  19 Copy quote

• You become excellent, and when you become excellent, no-one can take that away from you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Away From You

  4 Copy quote

• What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

  Albert Camus

  Dying, Reason, Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.4, Vintage

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Judgment

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities.

  Dalai Lama

  Self Esteem, Ocean, Quality

  11 Copy quote

• If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.

  Earl Nightingale

  Attitude, World, Results

  Earl Nightingale (1969). “This is Earl Nightingale”, Doubleday Books

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Heart, Men, Doe

  6 Copy quote

• Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.

  Tom Peters

  Quality, Essentials, Culture

  "In Search of Excellence". Book by Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr., 1982.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think I'm a reporter's editor. Being a good reporter is a specific skill, one I admire and don't possess myself - I appreciate people who know how to ask the right questions, who are excellent researchers, who know how to assemble information, and I enjoy working with them to shape their information into an article. Good reporters tend to be receptive to editing, and to a more collaborative form of writing in general, and you always end up learning more from how they work than you expect you will.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

  Donald Berwick

  Care, Definitions, Wealth

  "'Glenn Beck': Who Is Donald Berwick?". www.foxnews.com. July 09, 2010.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.

  Gail Collins

  Different, Campaigns, Calendars

  "Orca, Meet Obama". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. November 7, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Consensus Building, President, Improvement

  9 Copy quote

• Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.

  Bobby Flay

  Giving, Cooking, Style

  16 Copy quote

• I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

  Bill Gates

  Memories

  "The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth" by John Heilemann, www.wired.com. November 01, 2000.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Way, Lucky

  4 Copy quote

• Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my opinion, was justified by the sheer number of excellent writers coming from India and the Indian diaspora.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Numbers, Media, Diaspora

  12 Copy quote

• Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.

  Brit Hume

  Night, Organization, Tuesday

  7 Copy quote