Better Quotes

We have all read tragic stories in our local papers about gun accidents as a result of misuse. As lawmakers we can better promote safety and responsibility by encouraging gun owners to purchase gun safes to store firearms and keep them from falling into the wrong hands.

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother.

I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.

To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career.

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar.

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

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.

I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.