Better Quotes
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I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.
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I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and that we have to live up to their example.
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It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.
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Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
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I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.
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I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.
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One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.
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How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.
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Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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When a product is made, everyone hopes for the best. Whether it could have been better or not is more of an afterthought.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Yeah, I just don't break. I don't. And there's only one person I know who's a better non-breaker than me, and that's Will Forte from 'SNL.' You can not make that guy break. I'll break eventually - Will Forte will never break.
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I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
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The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work better than any alternative in reducing the risk of use.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.
