Excellent

Famous quotes containing the word excellent:

    “Don’t use that foreign word “ideals.” We have that excellent native word “lies.””
    —Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)

    “It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.”
    —James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

    “When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is then made good, a good one excellent, an excellent one extraordinary.”
    —Vivian Gornick (b. 1935)