“Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.”
Source: Sincerely, Andy Rooney
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writer, humorist, television personality 1919–2011Related quotes
On n'est point un homme d'esprit pour avoir beaucoup d'idées, comme on n'est pas un bon général pour avoir beaucoup de soldats.
Maximes et Pensées (Van Bever, Paris :1923), #446
Reflections
Pt. 1, Ch. 10
Disturbing the Universe (1979)
“If you're waiting to have good ideas before you have any ideas, you won't have many ideas.”
Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001), Ch. 3
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)
“Having good ideas is critical to the success of any creative work.”
Original: Avere buone idee è fondamentale per il successo di qualsiasi lavoro creativo.
Source: prevale.net
“If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.”
"Many people believe Samuel Johnson said it, but no one seems to have found it anywhere in his works or letters, or, for that matter any of the biographies of him by his contemporaries. I'm basing that on what's been included in Primary Source Media's CD-ROM of Johnson and Boswell. The CD-ROM includes all of Johnson's writings in the canon, Boswell's Life of Johnson and Tour of the Hebrides, as well as accounts from Hester Thrale, Sir John Hawkins, Fanny Burney, plus O.M. Brack's 'Early Biographies.' In short, practically nothing from the 18th Century has been left out. In addition, I've also consulted 'The Beauties of Johnson,' an 18th Century collection of Johnson quotations."
“Your manuscript is both good and original. …” http://www.samueljohnson.com/goodorig.html at The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page http://www.samueljohnson.com/ Retrieved 2013-07-07
Misattributed
“I was just talking with friends and they said it was good idea and I just sort of liked the idea.”
AP via CBS News https://web.archive.org/web/20150906180820/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prince-faces-press/
Associated Press interview during his gap year (29 September 2000)