When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
Success in football is relative. If you take a job at a school that finished with a 1-9 record the year before, you're considered a good coach if you finish 5-5 in your first season. But what happens if you start with 8-2 or 9-1?
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.
As long as people are buying music, it's good for everybody.
One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.
Being in music forever, I have good pitch, so I know when I'm singing in or out of tune. But the key to really good singing is just relaxing and thinking about what the song is.
It's a job and we're going to work together for six months, so let's have a good time.
We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.
I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.
I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions.
Anytime I go on Twitter, there's always the good but the bad as well.
You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.
James McBride's 'The Good Lord Bird' is set in the mid-19th century and is based on the real life of John Brown, the one who lies a-mouldering in his grave.
I think people listen to whatever they think is good.
TV's been good to me.
Instead of fearing the unknown - all the bad that can happen - realize that good things can surprise you as well.
Any comparison to a WWE legend or someone I've looked up to is really cool, but make no mistake about it, my ego is too big to want to be a really good replica of someone else!
The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'
I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.
My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
I don't think anyone's particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you see a comedian on stage in jeans and a t-shirt it doesn't matter how good they are - it always looks like amateur hour when they walk onto the stage.
You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or a Duchamp. It amuses me that they thought that what they did would be a good way of making art.
Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept.
When I wake up in the morning, I don't think of myself as being better than anybody else. I think of myself as a good hitter.
The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
I didn't want to be a big star. I wanted to be a really good actor.
Every shot feels like the first shot of the day. If I'm on the range hitting shot after shot, I can hit them just as good as I did when I was 30. But out on the course, your body changes between shots. You get out of the cart, and you've got this 170-yard 5-iron over a bunker, and it goes about 138.
