Good Day famous quotes
03-29-2025
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
-- Abu Bakr -
We should all die with a sharp, brusque heart attack. My father was lucky like that. One day he went hunting. He had a good day, he killed a lot of game, he was with his best friends. He said, "Ah, I'm still a good hunter." Then he said, "I don't feel well," and in 30 seconds it was all over.
-- Alain Resnais -
When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.
-- Albert Brooks -
Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days.
-- Ali Landry -
"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.
-- Alice Childress -
You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!
-- Aly Raisman -
Well, do a good day's work and act like somebody.
-- Andy Griffith -
A bad day can tell you more about yourself than a good day.
-- Andy Ogle -
I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write
-- Anne McCaffrey -
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
-- Annie Dillard -
At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.
-- Arthur Golden -
Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
-- Augustus Hare -
That experience showed me that I-from moment to moment-am the only person in control of my connection to God. It's not that God is deciding to connect with me, depending on whether I had a good day, or did good or bad deeds. It's all up to me. God, the awareness of God, the love of God, the blessings of God-that lively ecstasy-is always there. It's me who separates from God by judging, by indulging in negativity, by criticizing myself, as well as others.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
-- Barry Lyga -
To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.
-- Benny Goodman -
Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.
-- Bert Lance -
I go to my studio every day. Some days work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only an accumulation of all the other days, the nonproductive ones.
-- Beverly Pepper -
I see myself as most people see themselves, you have good days and bad days. I don't think I'm better looking now than I did three years ago.
-- Bill Skarsgard -
A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.
-- Bob Beauprez -
When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.
-- Bob Feller -
I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.
-- Bob Ross -
I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever go to the park where I don't have a good day. I don't like losing. But I don't think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don't think once.
-- Bob Uecker -
Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that never were - a regimented church you never attended, traditional virtues you never practiced, legalistic obedience you never honored, and a sterile orthodoxy you never accepted. The old era is done. The decisive inbreak of God has happened.
-- Brennan Manning -
I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles and constantly move forward.
-- Bruce Jenner -
I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart.
-- Buddy Hackett -
Any day you wake up and the ground isn't shaking is a good day.
-- C.C. DeVille -
As I see it, I'm just getting better and better as a rider - physically and mentally. I'm as motivated as I ever was. I enjoy it as much as I ever did. When you're a good rider on a good day, the bike doesn't rattle and bounce. You're smooth. Even if it's rough you can find a way to make the bike float.
-- Cadel Evans -
Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day.
-- Cameron Diaz -
On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man so I don't necessarily know how cute we're supposed to be.
-- Cee Lo Green -
Every relationship has at least one really good day. What I mean is, no matter how sour things go, there's always that day. That day is always in your possession. That's the day you remember. You get old and you think: well, at least I had that day. It happened once. You think all the variables might just line up again. But they don't. Not always. I once talked to a woman who said, "Yeah, that's the day we had an angel around.
-- Charles Baxter -
Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.
-- Charles Frazier -
A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
Rage is really only for the good days. The truth is there's little of that left. the truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes only. A train, a wall, a world. Or a man. A thing dangling in senseless articulation in a howling void. No meaning to its life. Its words. Why would I seek the company of such a thing? Why?
-- Cormac McCarthy -
You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day..
-- Cotton Fitzsimmons -
When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.
-- Curt Schilling -
It has not been a good day. I lost my glasses early this morning and I had to go buy a pair of 79 dollar reading glasses today. 79 bucks. You can literally get them at Costco, three-for-20.
-- Darryl Sutter -
For a moment this good time would never end You and me Just wasting time I was kissing you You were kissing me love From good day into a moonlight
-- Dave Matthews -
One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day’s work. Look at the progress of the day towards the end and ask yourself: 'Have I done a good day’s work?'
-- David Heinemeier Hansson -
We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.
-- David Hyde Pierce -
She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.
-- David O. Selznick -
If you start getting instability in large powers with nuclear weapons, that's not a good day.
-- David Titley -
I like the challenge of getting players to rise to certain levels, but that's the easy part. The biggest challenge is to get them to believe in what we're doing. They have to understand that it's O.K. to have good days and bad days.
-- Dawn Staley -
There are days-depression is a part of it-when if all you do is get dressed, take a shower and put on your makeup, then it is a good day. Your goals have to be much lower. But if you take one tiny little step, then you can take another and another.
-- Deborah Norville -
Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.
-- Dennis Lehane -
For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.
-- Denzel Washington -
Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.
-- Denzel Washington -
With every job I've gotten, I've bought myself something. When 'Glee' was picked up, I rented a piano for the year. For smaller victories, I'll go to dinner with a friend, or go for a walk and think about it all. It's important to say to yourself, Today was a good day.
-- Dianna Agron -
My goal has always been not to look forward to the next thing, but to relish and celebrate the successes I have at the moment. Whether it's landing a part in a student film or having a good day in acting class, I never discredit anything.
-- Dianna Agron -
I think one thing we went through was common to a lot of people: You work your whole life to achieve something, then you achieve it and find out that you still have good days and bad days. So you start thinking, 'Is that all there is?' After a while you calm down and get back to work.
-- Elliot Easton -
I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.
-- Elmore Leonard -
Sometimes good days are not always fun, sometimes they are good because of how hard they were and gratifying for those reasons.
-- Emile Hirsch -
Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.
-- Emo Philips -
Mondays are a good day to make statements, not Friday.
-- Ernie Els -
Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.
-- Ethan Coen -
I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!
-- Faith Hill -
Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day.
-- Faith Hill -
Everyday is a good day, just some days are better
-- Farrah Fawcett -
You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
-- Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.
-- Freya Stark -
My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.
-- Gene Simmons -
A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!
-- George du Maurier -
I think even like Saddam Hussein or Hitler would wake up and say, "I think it's going to be a good day. I'm gonna do some really important work." And given their definition of good, they went out and did horrible things.
-- George Saunders -
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
-- Gillian Anderson -
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day
-- Gillian Anderson -
A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.
-- Glennon Melton -
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
-- Grandma Moses -
I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday... I look back on my life as a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I made the best out of what life offered.
-- Grandma Moses -
I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.
-- Hari Kunzru -
It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.
-- Haruki Murakami -
Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.
-- Henri Matisse -
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Sometimes it's not catastrophic. Sometimes you only come to the bottom of your coffee cup. Sometimes you have a good day. No one wants to know. No one wants to tell you about theirs either. You might somehow take it. Turn it against them. See the flaw. You always tell them the whole thing sucks. It keeps you alive. They figure if you're out there having a rotten time, everything's fine and you're doing your part. No one will ever try to take your bad times away from you but they'll come swarming for your happiness.
-- Henry Rollins -
I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.
-- Holly Black -
Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.
-- Iggy Pop -
Bad days, good days, ‘I’ll cut you if you look at me the wrong way’ days. I’ll take them all.
-- Ilona Andrews -
Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.
-- J. Cole -
Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.
-- J. K. Rowling -
Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.
-- Jake Roberts -
Yeah, our car was really good even after the crash. I told you before the race that if we had good track position at the end I thought we could finish good. It was a really good day for our Linksys car. Just a fun day racing.
-- Jamie McMurray -
I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.
-- Jane Kaczmarek -
You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.
-- Jane Lynch -
I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading.
-- Jason Mewes -
I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.
-- Javier Bardem -
Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.
-- Jean Ingelow -
Love is a terrible weakness. It gives your enemies a perfect target, clouds your judgement, makes you reckless... and that's on a good day.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.
-- Jenna Elfman -
If Ive got a clean pair of jeans and a T-shirt, thats usually a good day for me.
-- Jessica Lange -
Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.
-- Joan Armatrading -
How many words a day do I write? Between six and seven thousand. And how many hours does that take? Three on a good day, as high as thirteen on a bad one
-- John Creasey -
But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service.
-- John Galliano -
I like strong girls, as long as they don't get snappish. And furthermore I think it important that you are good buddies and she does not get angry when you don't have your day.
-- Jonathan Brandis -
If I don't laugh at least 20 times a day - it hasn't been a good day.
-- Jordin Sparks -
The best feeling in the world is to know that you belong to me and you are mine. Every morning that is all I need to know and that itself is enough for me to have a good day.
-- Joseph P. Moran
