Good Quotes

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do.

All good ideas arrive by chance.

All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.

Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Paris is always a good idea.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.