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Improve Quotes (page 18)

On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin - who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes. Kurt Vonnegut
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Self improvement is masturbation..."
Self improvement is masturbation... Chuck Palahniuk
Janet Evanovich quote: "Exercise improves your sex life. Ranger to Stephanie"
Exercise improves your sex life. Ranger to Stephanie Janet Evanovich
J. K. Rowling quote: "We've got it [Percy's Head Boy badge]," Fred whispered to..."
We've got it [Percy's Head Boy badge]," Fred whispered to Harry. "We're improving it." The badge now read Bighead Boy. J. K. Rowling
Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar Oscar Wilde
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quote: "We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly..."
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. Henry David Thoreau
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. Socrates
In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of ones clothes in a community of blind men. Joseph Conrad
Alexis de Tocqueville quote: "America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in..."
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. Alexis de Tocqueville
Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things. Frank O'Connor
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I..."
I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Alain de Botton quote: "One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity..."
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass. Alain de Botton
it's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you'll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you'll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating Arnold Schwarzenegger
To enlighten mankind and improve its morals is the only lesson which we offer in this story. In reading it, may the world discover how great is the peril which follows the footsteps of those who will stop at nothing to satisfy their desires. Marquis de Sade

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