Better Quotes (page 220)

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• camera
• imagination
• consistency

I imagine that the essential gesture of the Operator is to surprise something or someone (through the little hole in the camera), and that this gesture is therefore perfect when it is performed unbeknownst to the subject being photographed. From this gesture derive all photographs whose principle (or better whose alibi) is “shock”; for the photographic “shock” consists less in traumatizing than in revealing what was so well hidden that the actor himself was unaware or unconscious of it. Roland Barthes

• humanity
• rats
• humane

If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter. J. K. Rowling

• dog
• caring
• cat

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. Abraham Lincoln

• look
• looking down
• everton

When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along Bill Shankly

• mindfulness
• age
• love

Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah."Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays."Hezekiah laughed, but there was affection in it. "I would love nothing better than to visit there. But I'm afraid I'd be tempted to loot the place, and carry it all away with me. Orson Scott Card

• hope
• forgiveness
• past

Forgiveness is having given up all hope of having had a better past. Anne Lamott

• good people
• mindfulness
• evening

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers. M. F. K. Fisher

• road
• character
• touching

We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road,I guess that's what they call character,I guess that's just the way it goes,better to be dusty than polished,like some store window mannequin,why don't you touch me where i'm rusty,let me stain your hands Ani DiFranco

• evening
• life
• pride

But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. The miserable companion of thieves and ruffians, the fallen outcast of low haunts, the associate of the scourings of the jails and hulks, living within the shadow of the gallows itself,--even this degraded being felt too proud to betray a feeble gleam of the womanly feeling which she thought a weakness, but which alone conneced her with that... Charles Dickens

• wonderful
• alone
• wonder

She began to wonder whether she would not do better to finish her life alone. What was left of life seemed unimportant. Willa Cather

• together
• country
• ears

And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. Jonathan Swift

• happy
• acceptance
• victory

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories. W. Somerset Maugham

• search
• people
• sometimes

Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way. Jim Rohn

• sometimes
• dead
• sometime

Sometimes dead is better Stephen King

• wall
• jail
• banging

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see. Carson McCullers