Better Quotes

Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.

Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.

The future will be better tomorrow.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona.

Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And people dress wilder, I think, at the Grammys.

Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.

When I met my wife, my whole life changed on a dime, really quickly and for the better.

It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun.

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.

President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and has in my opinion brought us back from the brink. But I still see my friends in no better shape and the gap widening.

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.

I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They're still very much the same kids that I met many years ago. They've grown up and they are funny and wicked and naughty and bright, and I think as actors their work is just getting better and better. They've blossomed.

I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

I've been to nudist beaches, like twice. But honestly, I just don't want to see these people naked. Most people look better with their clothes on, and the few that don't, look better than you, so why bother?