Quotes of: Good-deed Keyword

My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.

Chen Guangbiao

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

Connie Willis

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

Damien Hirst

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

James Altucher

My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.

K'naan

I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.

Larry Gagosian

The conclusion of things is the good. The good is, in other words, the conclusion at which all things arrive. Let's leave doubt for tomorrow," Komatsu said. "That is the point.

1Q84

...it saddens me that she has to grow up and make friends with humans. I hear the future coming for her. Stomp, stomp, stomp.

All Good Children

I have to smile. He's such a dork. But I'm starting to realize the one good thing that's happened: he's my dork.

All Fall Down

The way he smiled with just one corner of his mouth said he’d show her a good time if she let him.

All That Glitters

When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

The Alchemist

What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.

Atlas Shrugged

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

All the Little Live Things

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

William Blake

... when things get too good and too right and too perfect, it's only because the ugly twist hasn't yet infiltrated the goodness of it all...

Hopeless

Och, my potion is boiling. I need to say good night and keep an eye on the pot. Ye canna overboil newt's eyeballs.

A Highlander's Passion

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.

How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Holy Bible: New International Version

I cannot count the good people I know who, to my mind, would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

How to Cook a Wolf

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

How Music Works

Enjoying a cup of coffee and a good book, is there anything better? Only if literature were liquid and drinkable.

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee