Better Quotes
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I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.
J. August Richards -
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
Pat Barker
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I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.
Ian Thorpe -
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
Vera Farmiga -
Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.
Babyface -
Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
Edmund Phelps -
I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.
Mandy Patinkin
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Ramsey Clark -
I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.
Barry Bonds -
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
F. L. Lucas -
My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better.
E. L. Doctorow -
I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
Harry Caray -
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.
Ted Rall
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.
Finley Peter Dunne -
More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.
Wen Jiabao -
Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.
Larry Elder -
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
Wendell Berry -
A few honest men are better than numbers.
Oliver Cromwell
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
Edna Ferber -
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
Dan Savage -
If you're not willing to accept the pain real values incur, don't bother going to the trouble of formulating a values statement. You'll be better off without one.
Patrick Lencioni -
I wanted to play games in the best way possible, a way that was better than anyone else would have access to. As time went on, it became clear that VR was actually feasible on a large scale at a low cost, and at a quality far beyond what I had been hoping for.
Palmer Luckey