Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. J. P. Taylor

Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.

A. E. Housman

Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

A. E. Housman

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Adrianne Palicki

Maybe I could be Supergirl on Broadway! That would be perfect.

Adam Rapp

When I kicked in the first TV – a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels – it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.

Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

We need to toughen up a little bit. When we play a team that is physically better than we are, we have to play perfect football.

Ludwig von Mises

The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.

Baz Luhrmann

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.

Dallas Willard

The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul.

David Byrne

There's a great temptation to clean everything up and make everything more perfect. You have to know when to stop and stop doing it, or you might end up with something that sounds metronomic.

David Levithan

yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.

David Levithan

The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath.

David Letterman

President Bush says he is looking forward to the testimony of Condoleezza Rice. Yes, he is very excited about Condoleezza Rice's testimony before Congress. Well, it makes perfect sense - he wants to know what was going on, too.

David Bowie

I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with.

David Berg

We're still going to be learning in Heaven. We will still be developing and are not yet absolutely perfect. That's what the future is all about - to continue the learning process that we have begun here. We've all still got a lot to learn!

David Berg

I don't know how perfect everybody is going to be in Heaven, but anyhow, certainly a lot better than here!

David A. Bednar

As we fear God more completely, we love Him more perfectly. And 'perfect love casteth out all fear'.

Dave Grohl

I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect,

Dario Argento

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

Billy Graham

If you find a perfect church don't join it: You'd spoil it.

Billy Graham

If you want the perfect plan that God has for your life, you will have to go by way of Calvary to get it.

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.

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.

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.

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.