Better Quotes

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

~ Trevor Nunn

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

~ Robin Wright

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

~ Vivien Leigh

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

~ Elinor Wylie

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

~ Og Mandino

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

~ Barry White

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

~ Grandma Moses

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

~ Hendrik Willem Van Loon

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

~ Thomas Friedman

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.

~ Atifete Jahjaga

The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.

~ P. J. O'rourke

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

~ Thomas P. O'neill

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

~ Confucius

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

~ Plautus

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

~ Pietro Aretino

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

~ Zhang Ziyi

Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.

~ Christina Rossetti

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

~ Sam Smith

I love curves; I'm all about curves. I don't have many, which is really sad, but I think the more the better.

~ Cara Delevingne

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'

~ Neale Donald Walsch

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

~ Sammy Hagar

It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. With spirituality comes morals, a better way of thinking.

~ Damian Marley

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

~ Tom Clancy

AI might be a powerful technology, but things won't get better simply by adding AI.

~ Vivienne Ming

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.

~ Herbert Simon

The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better.

~ Nathan Myhrvold

I'm an optimist about the power of technology to transform lives for the better.

~ Julius Genachowski

People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

~ Donald Sadoway

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

~ Samuel Beckett

There's a way to do it better - find it.

~ Thomas A. Edison

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

~ Eileen Caddy

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That's how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it's a release, for lack of a better word.

~ Kevin Hart

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

~ Martin Van Buren

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

~ René Descartes

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

~ Ronald Reagan

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

~ John Adams

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

~ John Bolton

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

~ David Mamet