What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?
A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.
The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.
My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.
A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.
All we are is dust in the wind, dude.
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
Excellent wine generates enthusiasm. And whatever you do with enthusiasm is generally successful.
You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage.
But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification complete: mania is not a luxury one can easily afford. It is devastating to have the illness and aggravating to have to pay for medications, blood tests, and psychotherapy. They, at least, are partially deductible. But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.
There aren't many political humorists. Dave Barry is excellent, but he doesn't do it much.
Money is the excellent slave and a horrible master.
Dominants often make excellent submissives. They know the rules of the game.
Great fit and synergism for both companies and excellent outcome for employees, customers and shareholders.
It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.
When I got my job on Parks, it was so dreamy, kind of unfathomable. I didn't think a job that excellent could exist for me.
I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.
You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.