Very Good Quotes - Page 3

• Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Player, Vices

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.642, Modern Library

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• Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.

  Dick Brandon

  Funny, Movie, Sex

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• I'm here to tell you that I am proud of a couple of things. First, I am very good at projectile vomiting. Second, I've never had a really serious venereal disease.

  Herb Kelleher

  Couple, Vomiting, Disease

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• I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

  Ira Levin

  Growing Up, Father, Thinking

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• I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

  Ben Stiller

  Appreciation, Grateful, Acceptance

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• Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Evil, Shadow, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.487, Library of America

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• Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Sauce, Laissez Faire, Poor

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

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• Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

  George Bernard Shaw

  Eggs, Judging, Judgement

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• It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing.

  Cheri Huber

  Love, Change, Moving

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• A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good and awful sense. Perhaps most amazingly of all, Thomas Buergenthal remembers and renders the small mysteries and grand passions of childhood, even a childhood lived under the most horrific circumstances.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Children, Mean, Passion

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• Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

  Richard O'Brien

  Hollywood, Bedtime, Deals

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• I think when I came into marriage -- especially when you've had divorced parents like myself... You'd want to try even harder to make it work and you don't want to fall back into a pattern that you've seen happen in your own family. I desperately want it to work; I desperately love my husband and I wanted to share everything together. And I thought that we were a very good team.

  Princess Diana

  Husband, Team, Fall

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• Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Culture, Pops, Knows

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• Every good army needs a couple of criminals.

  Dean Lombardi

  Couple, Army, Criminals

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• An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

  Desi Arnaz

  Drama, Vices, Actors

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• What do you think of the criticism that you're not very good?

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Criticism

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• Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

  Anna Held

  Divorce, Good Friend, Littles

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• Hannah Storm in a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She's got on red go-go boots and a catholic school plaid skirt ... way too short for somebody in her 40s or maybe early 50s by now...She's got on her typically very, very tight shirt. She looks like she has sausage casing wrapping around her upper body ... I know she's very good, and I'm not supposed to be critical of ESPN people, so I won't ... but Hannah Storm ... come on now! Stop! What are you doing? ... She's what I would call a Holden Caulfield fantasy at this point.

  Tony Kornheiser

  School, People, Catholic

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• A very good case can be made, on moral as well as economic grounds, for a system in which the individual is required to stand on his own feet, not to lean on the state for handouts. Character, resourcefulness, capacity are formed and developed in struggle with obstacles, not in waiting passively for benefits from outside.

  William Henry Chamberlin

  Struggle, Character, Feet

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• My skills weren't that I knew how to design a floppy disk, I knew how to design a printer interface, I knew how to design a modem interface; it was that, when the time came and I had to get one done, I would design my own, fresh, without knowing how other people do it. That was another thing that made me very good. All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money, and (b) not having done it before, ever. Every single thing that we came out with that was really great, I'd never once done that thing in my life.

  Jessica Livingston

  Skills, Apples, Knowing

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• This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all these contradictions, the Vedanta finds out that Unity. It says, "Give up what is evil and give up what is good." What remains then? Behind good and evil stands something which is yours, the real you, beyond every evil, and beyond every good too, and it is that which is manifesting itself as good and bad. Know that first, and then and then alone you will be a true optimist, and not before; for then you will be able to control everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Real, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.177, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Doe, Culture

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.67, 谷月社

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• A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.

  Marcel Herrmann Telles

  Opportunity, Excellence, Ordinary

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• It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

  Del Harris

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Math, Animal, Vegetables

  'The Pirates of Penzance' (1879) act 1

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