Goodson Quotes & Sayings

There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they feel no other pleasure but to acquire money. — Jean De La Bruyere

Time did a funny thing after, some days slipping away without notice while others stretched on endlessly. — Jen Nadol

A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to make the act of love happen. He brings the jut of his body into the act of love, then takes it back, when it has had its way. — Susan Sontag

If a public groundswell occurs without altering people's attitudes or shifting the cultural dialogue at least slightly, then it's not a movement - it's just a fad. — Scott Goodson

The railway hit Harrow on the Hill in 1880 and it's been downhill ever since, culminating in one of those formless red brick shopping centres which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built. As a result, your average shopper has only to spend ten minutes inside to be reduced to a state of quiet desperation. Primark has the right idea, being right by the entrance so that fleeing punters would grab the closest approximation to whatever it was they wanted before running screaming into the night. I'm — Ben Aaronovitch

Sometimes you have to get away to remember who you are. Believe in yourself, Lyss. You're strong and smart enough to do this job. Never let anyone tell you different. — Cinda Williams Chima

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day. — Adam Sedgwick

Beginnings are easy, the thing is to finish the race — Vitor Belfort

My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That's the kind of place we lived in. — Takashi Murakami

This was years ago, I think during the early [Ronald] Reagan years. I came up with a plan that everybody just pay $8.95 in taxes. Cheating would be allowed. But the incentive to cheat wouldn't be nearly as great if you only had to pay the $8.95. There were a few people who would have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars under this plan. I think it was Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, the guys who do the quiz shows. But almost everybody else would be off really cheap. — Dave Barry

It's a tough universe kid. Dirty. Vicious. What the Empire doesn't screw up directly the rest of us screw up in fear of, or anger at, the Empire. — Simon Goodson

Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood. — Virginia Satir

My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over eight thousand dollars in one night. — Tom Cruise