Good Ones Quotes

There are good ’59 Les Pauls, and there are not-so-good ones. There are ones that are just OK, that don’t sustain as well.

I don’t like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: ‘Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.’

I cherished every moment with the national team – the good ones and the bad ones – because you learn from your mistakes.

There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.

Les Pauls work out real well for me because I’ll beat the hell out of them and they’ll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones.

We get a lot of emails, a lot of suggestions on the kinds of ideas and things that people would like to do. There’s a lot of good ones, but a lot of them are something that the franchise couldn’t or wouldn’t endorse, just as being not consistent with what the NBA would want or, probably, what we would even want, too.

The suits are as similar as uniforms, and yet you can tell their individual qualities by how they respond to movement – the good ones ripple like wheat in a field and provide not a show of monotony but rather a spectacle of plenty.

The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I’ve been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I’m not going to mention them. If you don’t have a few stinkers, you can’t appreciate the good ones.

It’s becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.

If you want to boo, I want you to boo me as loud as you can, because I think that’s a sign of respect: You don’t boo the bad players; you boo the really good ones.

I think that the difference between ‘The Sopranos‘ and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There had been a lot of dramas, a lot of really good ones, a lot of really bad ones, but they were always franchise shows about cops, or doctors, or lawyers. They weren’t about the writer himself.

I’ve had many managers, and learned a lot from them, the good ones always stayed even-keeled, never rode the waves.

I love to make soups. My father used to say, ‘There’s nothing like a nice bowl of soup.’ One of my favorites is… ready? Broccolini, white bean and hot Italian sausage soup. I’ve used escarole. Escarole in beans is unbelievable, or you can use bok choy, any kind. You can really fool around. That’s one of my good ones.

Who you are as a person is more special than trying to be someone you’re not. Don’t get me wrong – I have bad days, everyone does, but I know if I’m feeling insecure today, I’ll move on tomorrow. I’d tell girls to realise it’s OK to have bad days to get to the good ones.

I don’t like music docs, usually. There’s nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can’t say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.

When I was in New York, I took my bike everywhere for transportation. I didn’t have a fixed-gear bicycle, like a lot of the messengers do, but I had a stripped-down deal – having lost a few good ones in New York – and I did 10 to 15 miles a day just getting around the city.

While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.

I’ve basically seen opportunities as they come up and they’ve turned out to be really good ones.

I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

I don’t read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad.

Fighters don’t just fight. Not the good ones who have long, long success. The guys who make championship runs. The guys who fight for world titles. They get fizzled out, chewed up and spit out like a revolving door and then the next guy or the next female comes in to take their spot.

I felt that if I shared the lessons that I learned – both the good ones and the bad ones – that I might make the climb a little less painful for other women.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

When people talk about the great quarterbacks, it’s almost exclusively the guys who have won Super Bowls. There have been some very good ones who hardly get mentioned because they never won the big one. I don’t know if that’s fair, but that’s the way it is.

It’s not about having a plethora of suits, but having a few good ones. It’s all about fit. The contour of your body. If your shoulders are broad, you shouldn’t have shoulder pads. If you’re not a big man, you shouldn’t have extra space. I think it’s definitely worth having it properly fitted.

Corporations are like countries now, there’s a king, there are serfs, there’s a court, basically everything but moats. They’re feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones.

Actors can be many things – vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies – but all of the good ones are great storytellers.

I was in ‘Cliffhanger’ years ago, so I’m a massive fan of the big event movies – the good ones – but there’s a lot of crap that’s made in between the good ones. It’s just the superhuman films that I can’t get my head around. I guess if you’re a fan of them, then you love them.

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.

I looked long and hard at third films in series to see if there were any good ones that I could learn from. And there weren’t any that hadn’t just gone off the train tracks by their third film. Until, that is, I got to the third ‘Lord of the Rings‘ film.

A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish… That’s the worst model I’ve heard of in my life. It’s just idiotic. Why wouldn’t you just wait for the good ones?

The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.

It’s important to have people who are absolutely willing to say you’re wrong or who have a totally different perspective than you do on everything. Fresh ideas are hard to come by, and good ones are even harder.

Of course, getting to be No. 1 keeper in the world is a tough ask because there are loads of goalkeepers out there and some very good ones, too. But I always try to give my very best to reach that standard.

Red flag law is a general concept. There could be good ones and there can be bad ones. You should be against the bad ones, as I am.

Saturdays are set for antique shops. Williamsburg in Brooklyn has some good ones. I get in there and start meddling around with dusty boxes and rickety, worn-in stuff. I like it when I find something with someone else’s name on it.