Good Quotes

A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

Edmund Waller

I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

Edmund White

I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.

Edmund White

I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

Edmund White

The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in...

Edmund White

It's always good to be around nice-looking people.

Ed Westwick

John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.

Eli Wallach

You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forc...

Elizabeth Warren

Are you ready to fight for good jobs and and a solid level playing field? Are you ready to prove to another generation of Americans that we can build a better country and a newer world? Joe Biden is ready. Barack Obama is ready. I am ready. You're re...

Elizabeth Warren

As it is my good fortune to be American, I live in the only country that as a matter of policy is pro-Israel regardless of party allegiance; Democrats and Republicans equally unite behind the blue-and-white.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insisten...

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.

Elizabeth Warren

We can't go out and tell ourselves we've done good if we haven't.

Elizabeth Warren

No matter how good a deal sounds, if your name goes on the bottom line, you need to understand it and be sure you'll be able to pay. You are responsible for yourself forever. Forever.

Elizabeth Warren

I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me.

Emily Watson

I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

Emma Watson

I have to really enjoy the good things because it makes the bad things OK.

Emma Watson

I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy.

Emma Watson

I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.

E. O. Wilson

I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I'm very optimistic about it.

Eric Whitacre