#bette

My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#call #comedy #comics #day #eddie

Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#back #bad #bad stuff #better #came

I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#afraid #because #better #come #get

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living. ↗

— Dashiell Hammett

#better #better off #dying #like #living

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#exacts #full #look #way #worst

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ↗

— Julius Charles Hare

#becoming #better #first #first step #step

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out. ↗

— Roy Harper

#better #culture #ethnically #felt #i

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#assume #becoming #been #better #efficient

And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#also #better #businesses #corporations #customers

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it. ↗

— John Hawkes

#art #better #better actor #come #end