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  • I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner. -- Carson McCullers
  • Do not internalize the industrial model. You are not one of the myriad interchangeable pieces, but a unique human being, and if you've got something to say, say it, and think well of yourself while you're learning to say it better. -- David Mamet
  • I love revising things, because you see how you can get the language to get closer to intention. You know there are three ways to say X thing, but one will say it better than the other two. And in saying it better, it gets you closer to something. -- Claudia Rankine
  • I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better. -- Roger Moore
  • If you say you're going to do something, you better damn well do it. -- Eric Swalwell
  • People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all. -- Maggie Smith
  • No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.' -- Chris Rock
  • When I say I don't like my own work, that doesn't mean it isn't better than everyone else's. -- John Banville
  • The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha? -- Rahm Emanuel
  • If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing. -- Julie Andrews
  • So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport. -- Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person. -- Chad Hugo
  • Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.' -- Menander
  • I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully. -- Lydia Ko
  • The world is philosophically booby-trapped; touch an interesting subject, and it just might blow up in your face. Some say it's better not to touch. -- Michael Leunig
  • There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest. -- Katherine Heigl
  • People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare. -- Jo Brand
  • The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it. -- Alphonso Jackson
  • My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better. -- Robert Webb
  • It seems, by today's standards, that it's better to seek approval than to tell the truth. It's better to utter sweet nothings than to boldly say something of substance. -- Monica Johnson
  • The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone. -- Julian Casablancas
  • The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily. -- Paul Westerberg
  • And you know what? At the end of the day, it gets down to Obama and Romney. And what it's going to get down to is this. Obama is going to say, 'I inherited a mess and I'm making it better.' And Romney is going to say, 'you haven't made it good enough. And I can do far better than you have done.' -- John Kasich
  • It is always better to say too little than too much. -- Patricia Wentworth
  • It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving. -- Pearl S. Buck
  • They say it's better than sex. It's so much better. It's amazing. -- Angelina Jolie
  • It's better to say goodbye, to move on, to end the lie. -- S.C. Stephens
  • It is better to know what to fear than to say 'no fear.' -- Tim Fargo
  • It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly. -- W. H. Auden
  • I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away. -- Clancy Brown
  • If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • People say talking about it makes it better. Sometimes talking about it makes it worse. -- Kelly Batten
  • Don't you understand?" he would say, "You imagine the story better than I remember it. -- John Irving
  • It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again. -- John Mayer
  • With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it. -- Mignon McLaughlin
  • When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off." -- E. W. Howe
  • Thank God for rap, I would say it got me a plaque But what's better than that? -- Kendrick Lamar
  • I am a strong, black, lesbian woman. Every time I say it, I feel so much better. -- Brittney Griner
  • They say there's a heaven for those who wait, some say it's better I say it ain't. -- Billy Joel
  • The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one. -- Khaled Hosseini
  • About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead! -- Stephen Leacock
  • Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he thought to himself, and decided to say nothing. -- Paulo Coelho
  • It's better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point. -- Richard Branson
  • In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others." -- Menander
  • They may not like what you have to say, but it is better to express how you feel. -- Auliq Ice
  • It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in." -- Washington Gladden
  • Better if you don't. Suffice it to say '123kitty' does not a strong password make." - House Rules" -- Chloe Neill
  • When I cook him dinner and I burn it black, he better say hmmm, I like it like that. -- Shania Twain
  • We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence. -- William Allen White
  • It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism. -- Tim Wise
  • It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality. -- Neal Barnard
  • White boys do eat pussy better than everyone else, though, I will say that. Maybe it's those thin white-boy lips! -- Azealia Banks
  • In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why. -- Anton Chekhov
  • There are a lot of people who that you may only nod to; it's better to stop and say hello. -- Amy Ray
  • Next time you think of me like that , say my name when you come. It'll get you off even better. -- J.R. Ward
  • People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you. -- Dennis E. Adonis
  • Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system. -- Warren Buffett
  • You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. -- Paulo Coelho
  • It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction. -- Edmund the Martyr
  • Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little bit better than you said you would. -- Jimmy Dean
  • People often say very, very nice, complimentary things. But I think it's better if you don't take that too much to heart. -- Robin Trower
  • I like to say, in Hollywood, you can't make a redneck movie without me. That doesn't happen. You better not do it. -- David Koechner
  • They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better. -- Erin Morgenstern
  • Icelanders are grateful to meet foreigners who have heard of their country. And even more grateful to hear someone say it deserves better. -- Halldor Laxness
  • Icelanders are grateful to meet foreigners who have heard of their country. And even more grateful to hear someone say it deserves better. -- Halldor Laxness
  • He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing. -- Diogenes Laertius
  • People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart. -- LeBron James
  • I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it. -- Lewis Carroll
  • I find myself in situations a lot where I have to say to someone, "This can be better," and it's hard to say that. -- Steven Soderbergh
  • I'll always say my prayers...and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me. -- Johanna Spyri
  • ...but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty. -ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 1 page 22 -- Chetan Bhagat
  • Have the courage to say what needs to be said to who it needs to be said to. You'll both be better for it. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.' -- Sonia Sanchez
  • If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity. -- John Dalton
  • In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better. -- Paul Keating
  • Women are more emotional. They do get flustered. Which is not to say that men are better than they. It's simply the way it is. -- Bob Newhart
  • ...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. -- Chris Crutcher
  • Never want to say anything so strongly that you give up the option of finding something better. If you have to say it, you will. -- Richard Hugo
  • Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better. -- Lester Levenson
  • They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? -- Princess Diana
  • I'm just gonna be honest and if I feel something, I'm just gonna say it! Once I started doing that, my music just got better. -- SonReal
  • The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it. -- Joy Williams
  • Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner. -- Eric Berne
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  • Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'? -- Joseph Henry Jackson
  • It is important to say "sir" at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you. -- Stephen Chbosky
  • We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, "I am suffering," than to say, "This landscape is ugly. -- Simone Weil
  • As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics. -- Peter Lynch
  • I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better. -- Marian Keyes
  • I would say the more the better when it is comes to development and marketing. It's actually fun. For some it can be a frustrating thing. -- John Petrucci
  • Writing a story is like ruling the world. Except it's even better. How many rulers out there that you know can tell people what they say? -- VanillaCreamPie8888
  • God is a wild man...should you encounter him...hang on for dear life-or let go for dear life is a better way to say it. -- Rich Mullins
  • No one really has the guts to say it, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we? -- Gregory Stock
  • Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do. -- Aya Cash
  • No. It's actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it's okay even though it's not. It's better to tell the truth. -- Nancy Werlin
  • They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green. -- Conor Oberst
  • If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good goulash?' -- Nikita Khrushchev
  • Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better. -- Tom McCall
  • Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better.' They're wrong. -- Keanu Reeves
  • Most Iraqis, even if they hated Saddam and suffered, say life was much better under him than it was under the occupation and what's going on today. -- Tariq Ali
  • My father used to say: "Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common." -- Stark Young
  • Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy. -- Carl Sagan
  • A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means. -- Margaret Atwood
  • Four fifty-four for gas... because we have nobody that calls up OPEC... and say, [mobster voice] 'That. Price. Better. Get. Lower. And it better. Get. Lower. Fast.' -- Donald Trump
  • it's ok to say you've got a weak spot,you don't always have to be on top.Better to be hated then loved(x3) for what you're not. -- Marina and the Diamonds
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  • Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better. -- Winston Churchill
  • They say education has no end. If you still disagree with this, here is a better way to take it in; "Education has an end that never comes". -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good! -- Mackenzie Astin
  • I don't know what's ahead,? I say. â??I don't know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it's gotta be better than what's behind. It's gotta be. -- Patrick Ness
  • It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!" -- Mackenzie Astin
  • I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you. -- Carrie Fisher
  • Bruno, my old faithful. I haven't sufficiently described him. Is it enough to say he is indescribable? No. Better to try and fail than not to try at all. -- Nicole Krauss
  • The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days. -- Shirley Jones
  • I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better. -- Maria Sharapova
  • It is not a Buddhist approach to say that if everyone practiced Buddhism, the world would be a better place. Wars and oppression begin from this kind of thinking. -- Sulak Sivaraksa
  • You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently. -- Steve Jobs
  • I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.' -- Steve Perry
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