Top 1200 Good Authors Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material.

I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and a good team.

When I started writing, the deal was that publishers gave you a grand or two as an advance to buy some sweets, with the promise that they would make a big putsch with your fourth book when you'd built up a bit of a following. But by the time my fourth book came out, previously unpublished authors were the new big thing.

What matters is a good person, a good soul, someone who genuinely gives good attention to the relationships in their lives.

The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener.

I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.

I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world opening up to them through books they study. The negatives may include bad experiences kids have - if they don't like the book or the teacher, or the way the book is taught.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.

I'm very good at submissions from the ground. I have good takedowns and good striking, so I'm pretty well-rounded.

The transfer was good for me, good for Chelsea, good for Shanghai, and I'm so happy to come to the Chinese Super League.

[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.

I feel that I was a good all-around player, I had good speed, a good arm and could play the outfield.

I'm not good at dialogue. I'm not good at holding a mirror up at a real world. I'm not good at believable characterisation.

When you dig in, two big titans clashing, what good is that? It's not good for either of us; it's not good for the industry.

I don't know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will mean people can still make their careers this way. Will whatever comes next allow people to be able to own their ideas and be able to take time to develop them?

God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth.

Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If the reviewers have objections the author must answer them or change the article to take reviewers' objections into account. Under the IPCC review process, the authors are at liberty to ignore criticisms.

That's what we grew up with - the good songs, the good lyrics, the good big-band stuff. I miss that era.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.

It's hard to grow up to be a good man and a good husband and a good father and at least at some level, my dad gave me a great gift to be able to grow up in the volleyball context and know that I was on a good path.

The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.

It's great that there are so many different kinds of books for kids and adults to choose from. I think an eclectic reader is the best kind of reader to be, which would be why I was always so satisfied to hear that kids read the Baby-Sitters Club books and then went on and discovered other authors and other genres.

As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor's bill, a beggar's purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning - but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold.

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

I think that when you smell good, you feel good. You know how when you're in a room and someone else smells good, you're like, 'Where is that?'

As the moon, though darkened with spots, gives us a much greater light than the stars that sewn all-luminous, so do the Scriptures afford more light than the brightest human authors. In them the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

Our business is as good as any high-end designer. We do good because we make good things.

Sometimes I play good shots, good rallies, and then there is hundreds of mistakes and not a good shot.

All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

I've noticed that most authors who are pastors or speakers write books whose message is derived from a sermon series they did at their church. I guess my process is similar except that instead of a sermon, the genesis of the idea is found in the form of a three-minute song. And many of my songs have been inspired by the true stories and testimonies of people who've written to me from all over the world.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

The good man brings good to things out of the good stored up in his heart.

I'm having a good time watching Shooter. He's a good kid. He's been a good son to me. He has never failed.

Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to have, to use, to improve or to develop software for playing multimedia content without the permission of the manufacturers of the content themselves? .. This is an astonishing development in the course of our understanding of what we call the copyright bargain, the relationship between authors' rights, publishers' leverages and consumers' needs.

You wake in the morning and proclaim yourself to be the bearer of goodness. "I will bring good. I will attract good. I will create good. Good things happen to me, and my life is good." You start to move into the track of goodness, and that becomes a place of abundance, a place of rest, a place of relaxation, and a place of trust.

It's important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good.

It’s important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good.

Be bold, be humble, be brave, be resilient, be productive, be good, good to yourselves and good to each other. Be careful; be caring.

I want to be known for good work first. A good story and good delivery is just that - period.

I enjoy a good meal, a good vacation, or a good movie, much as anyone else would.

God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and He never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going bad that does not mean God has stopped doing good. It means He is shifting things around to get them in place for more good, if you will go on loving Him.

If you are part of good projects and working with good filmmakers, you will automatically get good roles.

Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

I am never sure that anything's good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.

The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

All I'm really good at is making music and singing and doing this. I'm not good at fashion, so I don't see a point in trying to be good at that.

In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.