Famous Quotes & Sayings

Preity Zinta

You know what's the worst part about being an actress? It's the pressure to look gorgeous all the time and to behave perfectly. But I'm not perfect, nobody is.

Leonard Slatkin

There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.

Oscar Wilde

To be premature is to be perfect

Patrick Rothfuss

But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.

Patricia Arquette

Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.

Leigh Hunt

I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.

Lauren Oliver

Everything I see and touch reminds me of him, and so everything I see and touch is perfect.

Kristen Stewart

My family are amazing. I had like, the perfect upbringing. It sucks for people like Lindsey [Lohan], but it's not her fault she's so off the rails.

Kinky Friedman

The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty.

Omar N. Bradley

The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.

Oliver Goldsmith

Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.

Odeya Rush

It's a challenge getting rid of an accent by yourself. I have parents that have such thick accents. They are like, "She sounds fine." They didn't know. To them, I spoke perfect English because their accents were so heavy. I don't even want to know what I sounded like. I don't want to know!

Marcus Samuelsson

Where is the stretch? Where is the perfect fit? Where does it make sense? You have to be a Baryshnikov.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

Kelly Cutrone

My life is not balanced and not everything is perfect all the time.

Katie Hoff

I like underwater pole vaulting, because you can have perfect form without the risk.

Kurt Warner

A perfect scenario, a perfect place to be in. But then a lot of times it's more disappointing when you don't get it done in a situation like that.

Ken Hitchcock

As a coach, I?d rather he be down there playing then up here sitting. In a perfect world, he would practice with us and play with the Phantoms, but that?s unfair to the Phantoms.

Paul Wellstone

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!

Mary Oliver

Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?

Martin Amis

Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.

Pope John Paul II

Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.

Pink

Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever ever feel like you're less than, less than perfect.

Pope Francis

Christ comes among us at Christmas: it is the perfect time for a personal encounter with the Lord.

Rachel Caine

And somewhere in heaven, Versace sheds a single, perfect tear.

Peter Lynch

Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.

Quentin Tarantino

If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.

Plutarch

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

The perfect world, by Adam trod, Was the first temple--built by God-- His fiat laid the corner stone, And heaved its pillars, one by one.

Terry Pratchett

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Terry Pratchett

I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read 'The Origin Of Species', hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

Terry Crews

You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections.

Terence McKenna

Time will perfect matter.