Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Hopper

Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

Edward Hirsch

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

Edward Gibbon

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . .

Edith Schaeffer

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

Eddie Marsan

What I love about the East End is that theres a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

Daymond John

It will never be a perfect time, you can only make time perfect.

David Tudor

I persist in performing.

David Henry Hwang

I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a handicapped restroom that said Deformed Mans Toilet, that kind of thing.

David Icke

The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception.

David Hockney

I've realized that I can do performances.

David Hockney

The cameras are getting smaller, they're getting more versatile, and eventually, I'm sure you'll have a camera with lots and lots of things on it so you can alter the picture. You could alter perspective.

David Hume

I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.

David Hume

What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity.

David Dreman

Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.

David Duke

As America is transformed from a 90 percent European American nation, as it was in the 1960s, to one where we will soon be a minority, should we not ask some pertinent questions. Is this racial diversity enriching, or will it be damaging to our social fabric?

David Brinkley

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

David Brainerd

God plans all perfect combinations.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It's more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.

Beatrix Potter

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Beatrix Potter

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

Baroness Orczy

I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.

Audre Lorde

I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.

Arthur Peacocke

The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.

Arnold Newman

It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets in every human being that it is impossible to present them all in one photograph.

Mads Mikkelsen

I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch, but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

The perception is that they take too long and are too expensive.

The perception is that politics is for sale and politicians are for sale.

The perception is it's environmentalist versus environmentalist, ... But it's environmentalists versus the power cartel.

The perception in the marketplace has a tremendous impact.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.