Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Stephens

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

James Mangold

There's a level of immersion that is perfect and there's a level that, for my taste, starts to actually exceed what the screen can provide. At that point, you're kind of overexceeding yourself.

Edward de Bono

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Hoda Kotb

Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.

Hermann Hesse

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Hermann Hesse

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You would attain to the divine perfection.

Helen Oyeyemi

I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.

Helen Reddy

There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.

Helen Rowland

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

Hilary Duff

You're so convinced you'll disappoint people if you show them that you're not perfect. You don't realize you are perfect. Your imperfections are what make you perfect. They make you you. That's what people love. It's what I love too.

Henry Ward Beecher

When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.

Henry James

Excellence does not require perfection.

Helena Bonham Carter

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

John Krasinski

The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

Haruki Murakami

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.

Haruki Murakami

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

Haruki Murakami

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

Harlan Ellison

Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better.

Gordon Ramsay

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

John Dryden

Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.

John Mayer

She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed.

John Lydon

I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one.

John Legend

Sometimes there's that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears.

John Lancaster Spalding

Make thyself perfect; others, happy.

They played the perfect game. We got embarrassed tonight.

They're the sectional champs, and they played like it. If you want to take them out, you've got to be perfect ... and we were not.

It's not the perfect time to fish, but the weather will be a whole lot better than it is here.

Bobby Cox

It's the perfect time of the year to do it.

There was only one place to go for Matt. He'd been second (2004) and third (2005) and to walk out of here with a championship is the perfect ending.

This makes perfect sense from a strategic point of view, ... not cheap.

Isiah Thomas

It's a dirty-work job. (Brown) is the perfect dirty-work guy.