Quotes on Perfectly Good

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste of anger. You will notice a certain theme to these Emily Litella Moments. Behind them all is a touching faith that someone, somewhere is actually in charge of what's happening - a proposition I beg leave to doubt.

I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.