Very Good Quotes - Page 12

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.

Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation. With that assumption I do not hesitate to say that the nation of Chile is better for our presence, and the same thing is happening in every other nation where we are operating.

Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.

I'm the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they're going to throw rocks at me, they're going to throw rocks at me for something I love rather than something I think is not very good, or at least something I think is not finished.

Forgetting is a very good survival mechanism.

I'm a very good bowler, which I discovered a few months ago.

I have friends who will say, "Oh you gotta come and see our show." And the first thing I say is, "Is it sketch or improv?" I'll go in a minute to see a sketch show. I love sketch; it's my favorite form. But if it's all improv, they're either very good and it's annoying how good they are and it makes you feel bad, or they're not too good then you're sweating for them. And you don't want to sweat for them, see actors repeating each other's lines.

I have to say I like Obama a lot. His record is the best. He's always been vocal about his opposition to the war in Iraq. Frankly, he seems very good in a lot of ways.

I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.

I'm not a matchmaker. I'm a horrible matchmaker. I always try. I'm not very good.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

I'm just not very good at glamour... It doesn't come easily to me.

You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.

I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.

I don't cook, I can't cook, and it is really abominable to see me in the kitchen. I order in takeaway food or get my friends to cook because a lot of them are very good.

I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.

We're going to be working in a stringent way and very good way on crime.

We're the highest taxed nation in the world. When I finish the plan, we'll be among the lower taxed, which is very good. I'd like to be the lowest, but you can't be the lowest.

I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Vladimir Putin, and I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Russia.

I spoke to Putin twice. He called me on the election. Vladimir Putin called me on the inauguration. We had a very good talk, especially the second one, lasted for a pretty long period of time. But have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge, no person that I deal with does.

The Zhuangzi is very good on telling us how the nonhuman-made world can enter into who we are more deeply than at the level of answering to our current interests. If the environment can shape who we are, it can shape our very interests, leading us to recognize things, events, and processes that are of genuine value and that we have not previously recognized as such.

I have become very good at clearing histories.

I work a lot and I like to get out and work but the work I do to make the other work work I'm not very good at.

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"