Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Bernhard

Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a fragment, whereas the whole and the complete and the perfect are basically abhorrent.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

Raymond Queneau

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

Vin Diesel

I'm a perfectionist. I'm very critical, especially artistically.

Russell Brand

As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

Roy Yamaguchi

I love showing my personality in my cooking.

Troy Glaus

You're not always going to be perfect, but I always try to be.

Troy Polamalu

All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.

Truman Capote

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

Trisha Goddard

I am an addictive personality.

Travis Barker

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

Rick Hendrick

Perseverance: Try and try again until the goal is achieved. Never give up.

Richard DeVos

Great moments await around every corner.

Richard DeVos

Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.

Richard DeVos

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

Raymond Chandler

Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

Reid Hoffman

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

Reid Hoffman

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.

Rebecca Solnit

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

Rick Springfield

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.

Rick Yancey

Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

Rick Yancey

Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.

Rick Warren

A ministry doesn't have to be perfect for God to use and bless it.

Rick Warren

The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.

Rick Warren

Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.

Rick Warren

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

Rick Warren

If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.

Rick Warren

There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him.

Trot Nixon

That's what perseverance is. You go through some tough times and you fight through it. And now, it's over. It's over.

Trenton Lee Stewart

It just supports my personal opinion that he's a wacko

Trenton Lee Stewart

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

Tony Snow

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

Tony Snow

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.