Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

Meryl Streep

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

Meryl Streep

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

Dogen

When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.

Bayard Taylor

My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.

Serj Tankian

I like having songs that go from the personal to the kind of inter-relational, universal, because everything comes back to micro/macro and everything's tied in.

Glenn Howerton

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

George Shearing

Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.

Gerry Harvey

Everybody, be they female, whatever your religion, whatever your nationality, you're an individual, and if you perform well, we want you, and if you don't, we don't.

We're trying to keep everything in perspective. We're just going to try to be prepared for everything and try to outwork them. The thing about the playoffs, though, is that you never know what teams are going to do.

Colin Chapman

July 4 is the perfect day to relax. It also provides a very good chance to spend quality time with friends and family since everyone is able to get away from the hassles of every day life, such as work.

Colin Farrell

Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy .

Claude Monet

I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a great success, but I couldn't be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I'm certain of it.

Dante Alighieri

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

Dan Simmons

Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.

Daphne Zuniga

This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.

Daphne Guinness

Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.

Dan Miller

Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something!

Dan Millman

Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness.

Cormac McCarthy

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

Colson Whitehead

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

Colum McCann

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

Cliff Sloan

When business is not all that it should be there is a temptation to sit back and say, Well, what's the use! We've done everything possible to stir up a little business and there is nothing doing so what's the use of trying! There is always a way. There was a way in and there is a way out. And success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw, and says, There is a way for me and, by jingo, I'll find it. The stagnator gathers green scum, finally dries up and leaves an unsightly hollow.

Conan O'Brien

No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .

Dwyane Wade

I'm just showing my personality in my clothing.

We use 100 Terabytes per month, total, for our channels.

We shot 31.4 percent and they shot 36.8 percent. You probably saw some ugly basketball.

Gary Blair

We shoot 44 percent (for the game). It sure didn't feel like it though. I think our 19 turnovers had something to do with it.

Wall Street can be very short-term oriented, and there's a lot of pressure to perform in the short term.

There is plenty of water on the planet, but every year its per capita availability diminishes.

When you look at the price of each CD, the fines are way out of perspective in relation to the crime,

Allen Iverson

We've just got to understand that (tonight) is a different day and we've got to perform better than we did (Wednesday) night.

This will all be over in a relatively short period of time.