Excellent Quotes:

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

- A. Y. Jackson

topic: Business, Artist, Excellent

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

- Albert Camus

topic: Dying, Reason, Excellent

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

- Alexander the Great

source: "Life of Alexander" by Plutarch, translated by John Dryden, 1895.

topic: Knowledge, Dominion, Excellent

Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Nonsense, Excellent, Dictionary

Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.

- Aristophanes

topic: Wealth, Excellent

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

- Arthur Smith

topic: Book, Tuscany, Excellent, Forthcoming, Walking Backwards

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

- Augustus Hare

topic: People, Example, Excellent

As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate. It's also an excellent way to get staff involved in the company's operations.

- Azim Premji

topic: Way, Excellent, Staff, Tycoons, Delegates

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Excellence, Excellent, Teach

Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.

- Barbara Mertz

topic: Emotion, Excellent, Method, Unproductive

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

- Baruch Spinoza

topic: Men, Hands, Excellent

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

- Baruch Spinoza

topic: Excellent, Difficult

Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.

- Ben Aaronovitch

topic: Coffee, Espresso, Excellent

Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.

- Bill Rodgers

topic: Excellence, Excellent, Performances

In the past, (GM) produced a lot of very excellent vehicles but somehow they didn't excite anybody,

- Bob Lutz

topic: Past, Excellent, Vehicle

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Excellent, Standards, Higher, Higher Standards

I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.

- Cardinal Richelieu

topic: I Love Myself, Brilliant, Excellent

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Average, Effort, Excellent

I am an excellent eviscerator of chickens… a helpful skill in Congress.

- Chellie Pingree

topic: Skills, Helpful, Excellent

Ben Foster dealt with the purchase of my house and service was excellent. Excellent Service all round.

- Chloe Smith

topic: House, Excellent, Excellent Service

I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.

- Christopher Atkins

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Insecurity, Excellent

But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.

- Clement of Alexandria

topic: Toil, Scripture, Excellent

You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

- D. A. Carson

topic: Trying, Worship, Excellent, Corporate Worship

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

- Danny Bonaduce

topic: Parent, Married, Excellent

A good Traceur trains until he/she gets it right. An excellent Traceur trains until he/she cannot get it wrong.

- David Belle

topic: Excellent, Train

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

- David Hume

topic: Happiness, Suits, Excellent

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

- David Oyelowo

topic: Excellent, Fine, Audience

Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.

- Debbi Fields

topic: Flaws, Enough, Excellent

Pursue excellence and ignore success. If you are excellent you will be successful

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Successful, Excellence, Excellent

Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.

- Earl Derr Biggers

topic: Shepherds, Dinner, Excellent, Brilliant Ideas, Careless

Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.

- Eddie Izzard

topic: Failing, Excellent, Projects

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

- Fannie Flagg

topic: Order, Missing, Excellent, Dyslexia

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

- Federico Fellini

topic: Thinking, Genius, Excellent

I consider myself an excellent candidate... because I care.

- Frank Vincent

topic: Care, I Care, Excellent, Because I Care

The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Want, Excuse, Excellent

An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

- George du Maurier

source: George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.157, Booklassic

topic: Apples, Peaches, Excellent, Funny Food

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

- Giacomo Casanova

topic: Brilliant, Constitution, Excellent

This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the Party.

- Harriet Harman

source: "Abbott Will Give Male Rivals a Good Run, Says Harman". www.bbc.co.uk. June 13, 2010.

topic: Party, Leader, Excellent

It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.

- Henry Fielding

topic: Men, Boat, Excellent

To be an excellent leader, you have to be a superb follower,

- Herb Kelleher

topic: Leader, Followers, Excellent

I have an excellent internal compass.

- Hugh Bonneville

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Compass, Excellent, Internals

It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.

- Hugh Miller

topic: Thank You, Hospitality, Excellent

The most excellent of those who perform good deeds are those who most often remember God in all situations.

- Ibn Ata Allah

topic: Deeds, Remember, Excellent

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

- James A. Michener

topic: Writing, Crafts, Excellent, Creative Writing, Great Writing

The acting in Downton Abbey has been consistently excellent across the board.

- James Frain

topic: Acting, Boards, Excellent, Abbey

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

- Janet Erskine Stuart

topic: Inspirational, Excellent

Dominants often make excellent submissives. They know the rules of the game.

- Jay Wiseman

topic: Games, Excellent, Rules Of The Game

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

- Jeff Lindsay

topic: Chance, Excellent, Should

Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.

- Jennifer Lee Carrell

source: Jennifer Lee Carrell (2007). “Interred with Their Bones”, p.57, Penguin

topic: Knowledge, Quality, Excellent, Omniscience

No doubt that he will make an excellent senator.

- Jeri Ryan

source: "Ryan file a bombshell". www.chicagotribune.com. June 22, 2004.

topic: Doubt, Excellent, Senators

The system itself has the mark of cleverness and ingenuity.... When you manipulate the menu system, you feel as though you are at the helm of the future.... The Xbox probably has the most raw potential for excellent games

- Jerry Holkins

topic: Xbox, Games, Excellent

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

- Joel Siegel

topic: Brilliant, Excellent, Critics

Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Success, Sowing, Excellent

Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.

- John Cage

topic: Sound, Excellent, Heard

You may believe you're an excellent rider," he called, "but there are a score of Temujai back there who actually are.

- John Flanagan

topic: Believe, May, Excellent

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

- John Norman

topic: Mastery, Excellent, Brilliant Ideas

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

- Joris-Karl Huysmans

topic: Modern, Excellent, Painter

Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!

- Jose Raul Capablanca

topic: Ballet, Chess, Excellent

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

- Joseph Joubert

topic: Agriculture, Kind, Excellent

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

topic: Literature, Language, Excellent

Family Guy is relentlessly excellent.

- Katherine Parkinson

topic: Family Guy, Guy, Excellent

I always knew I was an excellent liar; I just didn't know that I had it in me to fool myself.

- Lauren DeStefano

topic: Liars, Fool, Excellent

I think women are excellent social critics.

- Laurie Anderson

topic: Thinking, Excellent, Social

Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.

- Lillian Hellman

topic: Remember, Courtesy, Excellent

Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.

- Lita Ford

topic: Musician, Excellent

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Curiosity, Inquiry, Excellent

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Nature, World, Excellent

... I have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances.

- Margaret Oliphant

topic: Disappointment, Succeed, Excellent

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

- Mark Twain

topic: Passion, Abstinence, Excellent, Abstaining

David Boreanaz is actually a very good director and he directed one of our episodes. Excellent director, knew exactly what he wanted. We never had long days with David. He was great, he knew exactly what he wanted and he's a fantastic director.

- Michael Clarke

topic: Long, Directors, Excellent, Long Day

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Memories, Judgment, Excellent

One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

topic: Feelings, Excellent, Oneself

The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self.

- Muhammad

topic: Self, Excellent, Conquest, Jihad, Holy Prophet

Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.

- Nathan Myhrvold

topic: Want, Excellent, Predictions

Home's the most excellent place of all.

- Neil Diamond

source: Twitter post from Mar 01, 2009

topic: Home, Excellent

Only an excellent fabric can originate an excellent fashion

- Nino Cerruti

topic: Fashion, Fabric, Excellent

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Excellence, Unforgettable, Excellent, Self Motivation

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Excellence, Unforgettable, Excellent

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

- Os Guinness

topic: Excellent, Humans

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

- P. T. Barnum

topic: Money, Fire, Excellent

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

- Patricia Highsmith

topic: Mother, Elegance, Excellent, Fondness

I'm pretty good at putting up drywall and I'm an excellent kisser. That's pretty much all of my skills right there.

- Patrick Rothfuss

topic: Skills, Excellent

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

- Philip Sidney

source: Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.11

topic: Grace, Prison, Excellent

Great fit and synergism for both companies and excellent outcome for employees, customers and shareholders.

- Philippe Kahn

source: "Borland Bought by Micro Focus for $75M" by Jennifer Pittman, www.santacruzsentinel.com. May 06, 2009.

topic: Outcomes, Fit, Excellent

Excellent things are rare.

- Plato

topic: Excellence, Excellent

It is easier to begin well than to finish well.

- Plautus

topic: Easy, Excellent, Easier

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

- Quintilian

topic: Faults, Brilliant, Excellent, Brilliant Ideas, Admission

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Achievement, Excellent, Accomplish, Accomplishing Anything

When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.

- Richard J. Foster

topic: Problem, Excellent, Determine

My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.

- Rita Levi-Montalcini

source: "Nobel-winning biologist Rita Levi-Montalcini dies at 103" by Frances D'Emilio, www.nbcnews.com. December 30, 2012.

topic: Lonely, Excellent, Relation

Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!

- Robert Bolt

source: "Fictional character: King Henry VIII". "A Man for All Seasons", www.imdb.com. 1966.

topic: Taste, Taste In Music, Excellent

The great danger of being around un-excellent people is that you start to become like them without even knowing it.

- Robin Sharma

topic: Knowing, People, Excellent

An exceptional life isn't the result of lucky breaks but excellent choices.

- Robin Sharma

source: FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Apr 13, 2014

topic: Choices, Lucky, Excellent, Lucky Breaks

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

- Russell Lynes

topic: Drinking, Excellent, Novel

What is easy is seldom excellent.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Easy, Excellent

Maybe Ferrari's mirrors are excellent & have HD resolution

- Sebastian Vettel

topic: Mirrors, Ferrari, Excellent

An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.

- Stanley Wolpert

topic: Fall, Excellent, British

Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.

- Stella Benson

source: Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

topic: Misunderstood, Excellent, Conscience

If you are digging for excellent or suggestive renderings, this is among the richer mines.

- Steven T. Byington

topic: Digging, Excellent, Rendering

The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.

- Suzanne Collins

topic: Home, Excellent, Novel, Debut

Be excellent to each other and... Party on, dudes!

- Ted Theodore

topic: Party, Excellent

It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe itself.

- Thomas Berry

topic: Humanity, Excellent, Universe

Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.

- Tom Peters

topic: Rewards, Excellent, Mediocre

This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.

- William Styron

topic: Morning, Judgment, Excellent, Judgment Day

Logic is an excellent weapon when employed correctly.

- Cherise Sinclair

source: Cherise Sinclair (2013). “If Only”, p.363, VanScoy Publishing Group

topic: Weapons, Logic, Excellent

The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.

- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

topic: Beautiful, Perfection, Excellent, Mathematical Beauty

The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of ***** urges and excellent manners.

- David Edelstein

topic: Comedy, Exhausted, Excellent, Wellspring

Exceptional ideas create excellent opportunities

- Doug Berry

topic: Opportunity, Ideas, Excellent

Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.

- Margo Kaufman

topic: Divorce, Tests, Excellent, Remarriage

Things are going well in Germany because the economy is booming and as an export-driven nation, we are profiting from the fact that we have an excellent, high-performing SME sector. But if we want things to continue to go well into the future, then we have to break up the antiquated structures in some areas and really modernize.

- Martin Schulz

topic: Economy, Excellent, Break

Women have for centuries been recognized as talented listeners, nurturers, motivators, excellent communicators. These very qualities that we once were told were unbusinesslike are precisely the qualities that business needs most to tap human potential.

- Mary Cunningham Agee

topic: Quality, Needs, Excellent, Communicators, Human Potential

How to get a seat at the table: 1. Be excellent. 2. Say a prayer. 3. Be available 4. Be you

- Megan Alexander

topic: Prayer, Tables, Excellent

This is what engineers in Silicon Valley typically do. "Ok, well, of course there are some problems of our technology because it is so excellent and is so global so we are just gonna build a better one."

- Ramesh Srinivasan

topic: Technology, Problem, Excellent

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

- Robert Townsend

topic: Fun, Excellence, Excellent, Profitable Business

It's an excellent movie. Really excellent.

- Bill O'Reilly

topic: Excellence, Excellent

An excellent indie horror book with a wholly original premise.

- Mike Carey

topic: Book, Horror, Excellent

Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.

- Pliny the Younger

topic: Taught, Excellent, Masters

One sign of an excellent speech? 'Can people repeat something they heard, word for word?'

- Sam Horn

topic: People, Speech, Excellent

Being laughed at is excellent preparation for marriage.

- Timberlake Wertenbaker

source: Timberlake Wertenbaker (2014). “The Ash Girl”, p.59, Faber & Faber

topic: Preparation, Excellent, Laughed

If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue.

- John Gerard

source: John Gerard, (2013). “Gerard's Herball - Or, Generall Historie of Plantes”, p.3, Read Books Ltd

topic: May, Satisfaction, Excellent, Apothecary

'Family Guy' is relentlessly excellent.

- Katherine Parkinson

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Family Guy, Guy, Excellent

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Would Be, Excellent, Ifs

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.318, The Planet

topic: Men, Excellent, Trousers

Joss [Whedon] is an excellent storyteller. It really doesn't matter what medium he's working in.

- Patrick Rothfuss

topic: Matter, Excellent, Mediums

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

- Paul Gauguin

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Art, Excellent, Cooks, Spoilt

Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment. But it is worthy of note for the really excellent things which are promised

- Paul Laurence Dunbar

source: Paul Laurence Dunbar (2010). “The Sport of the Gods: and Other Essential Writings”, p.383, Modern Library

topic: Promise, Excellent, Notes

Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

- Aeschylus

source: Aeschylus (1922). “Four Plays of Aeschylus”

topic: Science, Numbers, Excellent

Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.

- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

topic: Stronger, Reputation, Excellent

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves

- Francois Fenelon

topic: Children, Forgiving, Excellent

Github is an excellent hosting service; I have nothing against it at all.

- Linus Torvalds

source: "10 Years of Git: An Interview with Git Creator Linus Torvalds". www.linuxfoundation.org. April 6, 2015.

topic: Excellent

The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

- Franz Grillparzer

topic: Diplomats, Politician, Excellent, Metternich, Verdict

...discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-

- Fulton J. Sheen

topic: Mean, Decision, Excellent

Old age is an excellent time for outrage.

- Maggie Kuhn

topic: Age, Excellent, Outrage, Moral Outrage

To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it.

- Confucius

source: Confucius (1950). “The Best of Confucius”

topic: Stars, Administration, Excellent, North Star

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

- Plutarch

topic: Enemy, Quality, Excellent

Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.

- Mao Zedong

topic: Heaven, Chaos, Excellent

There is great disorder in the heavens, and the situation is excellent.

- Mao Zedong

topic: Heaven, Excellent, Disorder

There is turmoil under the heavens. The prospects are excellent.

- Mao Zedong

topic: Heaven, Excellent, Turmoil, Prospects

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Kind, Building, Excellent

Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.

- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

topic: People, Economy, Excellent

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

source: "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Tusculanarum Disputationum, V, 22, p. 605-09, 1922.

topic: Thinking, Poet, Excellent

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.83, Ravenio Books

topic: Taste, Excellent, Contemplation

I never forget,” Myrnin said in a choked whisper. “Certainly not with your nails in my throat. They’re quite an excellent mnemonic device.

- Rachel Caine

source: Rachel Caine (2011). “Bite Club”, p.71, Allison & Busby

topic: Nails, Never Forget, Excellent, Myrnin

Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.

- Andre Gide

topic: Done, Leisure, Excellent

I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.

- Andrea Bocelli

topic: Opera, Firsts, Excellent, Hamptons

There are many other writers whose work I admire tremendously, but none whose work struck me at just the right young age. Jack Vance taught me that speculative fiction, science fiction, could be wonderfully and liberatingly stylistic. It didn't have to be pulp stuff. He really changed my writing and my view of science fiction, so if nothing else, my little homage to him in the novelette I wrote for that anthology is my thank-you to him. He helped me see that any genre can have excellent writing in it.

- Dan Simmons

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Writing, Age, Excellent

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

- Thomas Carlyle

topic: Belief, Excellent, Conviction

The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

source: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

topic: Fighting, Excellence, Excellent

The Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is.

- George Washington

topic: Constitution, Excellent, Ifs

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

- Marilyn vos Savant

topic: Able, Speak, Excellent

A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.65, Harvard University Press

topic: Speech, Excellent, Indignation

There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2421, Delphi Classics

topic: Virtue, Excellent, Capacity

The reality is more excellent than the report.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.204, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Reality, Excellent, Reports

I do not," I felt oddly appalled by her statement. "I'm an excellent liar. Ask my dentist. He swears I floss regularly.

- Darynda Jones

source: Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.21, Macmillan

topic: Liars, Dentist, Excellent

[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

- Gertrude Stein

source: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ch. 7 (1933)

topic: Village, Pounds, Excellent

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

- Tim Ferriss

topic: Sports, Language, Excellent, Stage Fright

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

- David Crystal

topic: Relief, Excellent, Swearing

Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.

- Tom Ford

topic: Kind, Excellent, Manners

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.97, Beacon Press

topic: Inspirational, Way, Excellent, Way Of Love

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

- Richard E. Byrd

source: Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.139, Island Press

topic: Solitude, Habit, Excellent

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

source: "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" (1893) See Arthur Conan Doyle 39

topic: Classic, Easy, Excellent

You can't succeed by being good. That's what you get paid for. You can't succeed by being excellent. That's what you're expected to do. You can only succeed by being outstanding.

- Tony Robbins

topic: Succeed, Excellent, Outstanding

...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.184, Prestwick House Inc

topic: Quality, Excellent, Form

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

- Gustave Flaubert

topic: Looks, Habit, Excellent

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Apathy, Indifference, Excellent, Indifference And Apathy

Your reasoning is excellent, it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.

- Ashleigh Brilliant

topic: Assumption, Excellent, Reasoning

I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent.

- Ashleigh Brilliant

source: "Self-Styled 'Epigrammist' Cuts To The Quip" by Aaron Epstein, www.washingtonpost.com. September 2, 1997.

topic: May Not Be Perfect, Excellent, I May Not Be, I May Not Be Perfect

Staplers--- Excellent source of iron

- Rick Riordan

topic: Iron, Excellent, Source

Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Parent, Married, Excellent

There aren't many political humorists. Dave Barry is excellent, but he doesn't do it much.

- P. J. O'Rourke

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Political, Excellent, Dave

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

- Denis Diderot

topic: Giving, Inspire, Excellent

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

- Joris-Karl Huysmans

topic: Modern, Excellent, Painter

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Excellent, Devices, Acquire

I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Want, Excellent, Competing

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

- Voltaire

topic: Excellent, Middle, Dregs

Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.

- W. H. Auden

topic: Love, Fuel, Excellent, Kindling

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.

- Robin McKinley

topic: Trust Me, Reason, Excellent

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: "The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne".

topic: Memories, Judgement, Excellent

I am entirely confident that the extraordinary women we have running for us right across Canada will make excellent cabinet ministers.

- Justin Trudeau

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Running, Excellent, Extraordinary

People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.

- Bill Gates

topic: People, Excellent, Knowledgeable

If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.

- Earl Nightingale

source: Earl Nightingale (1969). “This is Earl Nightingale”, Doubleday Books

topic: Attitude, World, Excellent

Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.

- Horace

source: Ars Poetica l. 359

topic: Excellence, Sometimes, Excellent

I thought it was excellent, to tell you the truth.

- Rush Limbaugh

topic: Excellent

What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?

- William Morris

source: William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

topic: Artist, Determined, Excellent, Workmen

An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

- Edward Weston

topic: Technique, Execution, Excellent

Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [274]

topic: Excellent, Lows, Gentle, Cordelia

Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,?which is an excellent thing.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1398, Oxford University Press

topic: Men, May, Excellent

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

- Saint Augustine

source: "On Free Choice of the Will". Book by Saint Augustine, 395 AD.

topic: Truth, Excellent, Ifs

O excellent! I love long life better than figs.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 2, l. [34]

topic: Life, Long, Excellent, Figs

Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.

- William Shakespeare

source: "Arden Shakespeare Complete Works".

topic: Lord, Excellent, Wells

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.413, Oxford University Press

topic: Modesty, Time Passing, Excellent

I got an excellent opportunity to learn and understand democratic values early on. And it shook me. This played a significant role in making me what I am.

- Narendra Modi

topic: Opportunity, Excellent, Significant

I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.

- Jack Kirby

source: Source: www.tcj.com

topic: Curriculum, Students, Excellent

Excellent warriors are not violent.

- Laozi

topic: Warrior, Taoism, Excellent

Excellent soldiers are not furious.

- Laozi

topic: Soldier, Taoism, Excellent

Excellent conquerors do not engage.

- Laozi

topic: Taoism, Excellent, Conqueror

Every single day has to be excellent. You gotta give it all you got!

- Eric Thomas

topic: Giving, Excellent, Give It All You Got

You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent.

- Eric Thomas

topic: Excellence, Excellent

There's one thing I'm really good at, and that's hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I'm excellent.

- Serena Williams

topic: Balls, Hitting, Excellent

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

- James F. Cooper

source: "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

topic: Fire, Journalism, Excellent