Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Jonas

DNCE is "dance without the a." It's not a perfect word, and you don't always have to be a perfect dancer to dance. Life is just sometimes not perfect.

Joan Rivers

My perfect last meal would be: shrimp cocktail, lasagna, steak, creamed spinach, salad with bleu cheese dressing, onion rings, garlic bread, and a dessert of strawberry shortcake.

Jimmy Fallon

According to a new report, since he's been governor, Chris Christie has spent $82,000 at a concession stand at MetLife Stadium. Now, I know it seems like the perfect story for a Chris Christie joke but I'm actually on a Chris Christie joke diet. So nothing for me, thanks.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?

Garrison Keillor

Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.

Francois Fenelon

The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

Frank Crowninshield

The only perfect climate is bed.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

Luke Bryan

Alcohol is perfect for me to curb the nerves a little bit.

Ludacris

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

Lucian Freud

Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than it is in the picture. The process is in fact habit-forming.

Louis Auchincloss

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Lori Foster

After A Perfect Storm came out, I heard from a young reader, who had suffered a similar background as Arizona, that I had helped her to find peace. That was the most amazing thing in the world to me.

Loren Eiseley

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

Lord Chesterfield

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

1-Don't analyze. 2-Don't complain. 3-Don't compare yourself to others. 4-Don't expect things to be done for you. 5-Don't expect perfection in the relative. 6-Look to the knowledge aspect daily. 7-Own the movement. 8-Problems are all in your head. 9-Hold yourself together.

Mahatma Gandhi

The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.

Gail Carriger

The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle.

Gail Carriger

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

Frank Luntz

When you're selling a product or service, you don't have - it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, although I've provided language that is. When you're a politician, one wrong word changes the entire - changes the meaning of something.

Maggie Stiefvater

The thing I was beginning to figure out about Sam and Grace, the thing about Sam not being able to function without her, was that that sort of love only worked when you were sure both people would always be around for each other. If one half of the equation left, or died, or was slightly less perfect in their love, it became the most tragic, pathetic story invented, laughable in its absurdity. Without Grace, Sam was a joke without a punch line.

Maggie Stiefvater

All these perfect days, made of glass Put on the shelf where they can cast perfect shadows that stretch and grow on the imperfect days down below. ... perfect shadows that shift and glow... ... perfect shadows that shift and grow..." "Sam singing on page 256 of Linger.

Maggie Stiefvater

I am not a huge fan of the one-sided pining romances where the guy is a perfect love-object because we don't see inside his head.

Madame de Stael

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.

Haruki Murakami

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

Haruki Murakami

All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

Joanna Trollope

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

John C. Reilly

I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!

Mahatma Gandhi

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

Mahatma Gandhi

Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.