Good Sayings & Quotes
These good sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. - Ernest Hemingway
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. - George Washington
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. - Mother Teresa
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. - Alfred Hitchcock
Written down, it doesn't seem a very good song, but coming through pale fawn fluff at about half-past eleven on a very sunny morning, it seemed to Pooh to be one of the best songs he had ever sung. So he went on singing it. [The House at Pooh Corner] - Alan Alexander Milne
Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - Oscar Wilde
Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labour, than when you give money merely in charity. - Samuel Johnson
Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not 'accepted' at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance. Just remember that the object of painting pictures in not simply to get them in exhibitions. It is all very fine to have your pictures hung, but you are painting for yourself, not for the jury. I had many years of rejections. - Robert Henri
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. - Wendell Phillips
The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. - Oscar Wilde
It is indolence. Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine. - Jane Austen
There is nothing more real than this, nothing more terrible. Be we as heroic as we like, that is the end which awaits the noblest life in the world. Let us reflect on this and then say whether it is not beyond doubt that there is no good in this life but. - Blaise Pascal
Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake. - Wystan Hugh Auden