Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Thompson

There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.

William Wilberforce

Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success.

Nick Cave

Personally I find the story of Christ incredibly moving.

I threw some different wrestlers in there to see how they would compete. I wasn't pleased with our performance. As a team, we need to pick it up.

I think the personnel is here to get that done.

Ethan Iverson

I think that his performance on that song is a real tribute to Bonham.

I think that perhaps this has more to do with physiological aspects, I don't know,

I thought he did well. We didn't put a lot of pressure on him after the first period but he made some big saves.

Jake Delhomme

I thought because we had never run it out of that formation at all -- I just thought it was the perfect call.

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

There are still some problems of course, We have 5,500 (bus) runs per day. 15 or 20 have problems.

Walter Salles

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

There are SMA pavements that have been down for 10 years, and there's no rutting. It's performing well when done properly.

Keira Knightley

I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.

David Horowitz

I wouldn't be persuaded to be here if it wasn't for 20 years of being on campuses and seeing this.

Alicia Keys

For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

Alicia Keys

I thought I had to be perfect. I would often make choices I thought would make everyone else happy. I lived at a pace that was "good for my career," whether it was good for me or not. I have learned how important it is to check in with myself and listen, really listen.

Alice Munro

Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

Alice Cooper

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.

Anne Lamott

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

Anne Lamott

You are not your bank account, our your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.

Ann Voskamp

If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?

Andy Pettitte

It kills me when I make a bad pitch...I want to be perfect out there.

Alber Elbaz

I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.

Albert Bandura

The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring the very circumstances that serve to nourish them

Albert Camus

Morality, when formal, devours.

America Ferrera

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I’m born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don’t speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker

Amanda Palmer

You're not going to be perfect, you're not going to stop berating yourself, you're not going to stop the comparisons, you're not going to stop the judgment, but you can become evermore mindful of it, and that has to be good enough.

Annie Leibovitz

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

Annie Lennox

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

Annie Lennox

In a way, it's all down to perception, isn't it? And everyone has their own take on everything.

Annie Dillard

Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection.