Very Good Quotes

Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego. Always question yourself and your ability. Don't ever feel that you are very good. The second you do, you are dead.

I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.

My English is not very good-looking.

I try to be cool, but I'm not very good at it.

The sooner you learn that life is not fair, the better off you'll be, because you'll spend less time railing against life's unfairness and feeling aggrieved and entitled, and more time figuring out how to maximize your assets, and your talents and how to deal with things that you're not very good at.

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

Reading is very good. And you can quote me!

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

The more I learned about games, the more frustrated I became because the games weren't very good. I could tell a good game from a bad game. My conclusion was: let's make our own games.

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.

Every good work should have at least ten meanings.

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

I hope to be remembered as a very good jockey.

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

I think my acceleration is very good. That's the key for me.

I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!

Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?

I was not a very good football player when I started out.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.

We definitely aren't very good at staying in one place. There's not a domesticated bone in my body.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.

I'm not very good at taking compliments. It's better than getting slapped in the face, I suppose.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruel master.

The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

I wasn't a very good illustrator so I became a designer.

I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.

Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop.

We have a very good head thing but we don't make love.

When I was 3 years old, I thought I was very good at skiing.

I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.

I show off - I'm a very good show off. It's what I do, it's what I'm good at.

The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.