Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eckhart Tolle

Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.

Elijah Wood

I guess I'm not jaded because I still believe that there are good films out there, and there are great directors, and there are great writers. It just takes a little bit more perseverance and a little bit more time to find [them].

Edward Norton

As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.

Matt Damon

We have a similar perspective, ... We're total hams.

Bill Clinton

We have had the most unbelievable relationship over a very long period of time.

Britt Robertson

The perfect shorts are always important.

Britney Spears

There will be a "Oops 100." They'll be plenty more oopses. I'm not perfect. I'm human.

Brian McKnight

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

Brian Greene

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

Brett Hoebel

Don't strive for perfection. It doesn't exist. Strive for a better you. That's always in reach.

Brett Somers

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

Brandon Sanderson

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

Brandon Sanderson

I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

Boris Vian

Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheve qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.

Archie Manning

You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Ben Okri

To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.

Ben Okri

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Barbara Kingsolver

the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live inside another person's skin. It creates empathy. And that's the antidote to bigotry. The novel doesn't just tell you about another life, which is what a newspaper would do. It makes you live another life, inhabit another perspective. And that's very important.

Ashton Eaton

There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.

Apolo Ohno

When you watch a tea ceremony, every single movement, every single gesture is very calculated. It's very precise, and it's all protocol. It's all a part of the system. And it's almost like they've sacrificed every single thing to make that perfect. It's like their craft.

Antonio Banderas

As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.

Basmah bint Saud

I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.

Bayard Taylor

The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

Bayard Taylor

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

Austin Phelps

Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success

Ava Gardner

Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Ava Gardner

The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.

Ashley Olsen

I'm the most private person.

Ashley Montagu

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

Bernie Siegel

We have to create perfection through love