Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suzanne Vega

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.

Suze Orman

I'd rather make 50 percent of something than 100 percent of nothing.

Susan Sontag

Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy.

Susan Sontag

The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place.

Susan Sontag

A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.

Taylor Kitsch

I'm an all-or-nothing person.

Taylor Hawkins

I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

Ray LaMontagne

I'm a private person.

Ray Kroc

You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.

Raul Castro

I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.

Rashida Jones

Control the publics perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

Rashida Jones

I'm terrified of performing live.

Randy Bachman

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.

Randy Bachman

We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.

Thomas Jefferson

To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.

Thomas Jefferson

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

Thomas Jefferson

We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress, the arms we have been compelled to assume we will use with perseverance, exerting to their utmost energies all those powers which our Creator hath given us to preserve that liberty which he committed to us in sacred deposit and to protect from every hostile hand our lives and our properties.

Thomas Jefferson

A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.

Thomas Jefferson

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

Thomas Jefferson

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

Robert Henri

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

Robert Henri

There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

Taylor Caldwell

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Tania Raymonde

I am like the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily.

Tupac Shakur

I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

Tupac Shakur

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.

Tupac Shakur

Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance...

Tracy McMillan

Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while: nothing is perfect.

Vera Farmiga

You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.

Vera Farmiga

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

Uma Thurman

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.

Robin Wright

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

Robin Williams

She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other