Scott Westerfeld Quotes
It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
Quotes to Explore
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You either get better, or you don't progress.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.
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All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.
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I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
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I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
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I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.
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I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
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I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.
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And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.
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It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
