Excellent Quotes

An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

But the mind is here accepted not for the soul, but for that which is the more excellent in the soul.

I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.