Better Quotes

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.

From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better.

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.

And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

On-screen relationships are the best because you don't have to worry about saying the wrong things. And if the guy's got a girlfriend, or I'm not attracted to him, it's even better. It's just my character kissing his character.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game.

I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.

How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.

America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.

Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different.

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.

Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.

The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.

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.

I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?

I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes.