#bet

One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out! ↗

— Eric Carle

#between #day #days #desperate #doing

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

— Steve Carlton

#better #irony #quotes #without #wrote

I'm a much better writer for being a father. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#better #father #i #much #writer

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting. ↗

— Robert Carlyle

#between #empty #empty space #get #greatest

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can. ↗

— Tom Felton

#because #being #being famous #better #cheer

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#better #deep #eternity #good #lies

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#average #average person #between #capacity #devote

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#been #better #books #come #had

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#better #communicate #effort #even #lazy

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#cleopatra #collapsed #elizabeth #elizabeth taylor #million