Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stefano Langone

But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth.

Thomas Hardy

Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds

Thomas Hardy

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity

Thomas Keller

It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

Thomas Bernhard

Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a fragment, whereas the whole and the complete and the perfect are basically abhorrent.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

Vin Diesel

I'm a perfectionist. I'm very critical, especially artistically.

Troy Glaus

You're not always going to be perfect, but I always try to be.

Truman Capote

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

Raymond Chandler

Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

Rebecca Solnit

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

Rick Yancey

Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.

Rick Warren

A ministry doesn't have to be perfect for God to use and bless it.

Rick Warren

The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.

Rick Warren

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

Rick Warren

If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

Tony Snow

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

Tony Snow

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

Veronica Roth

It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.

Vince Vaughn

I'm not perfect, but who are we kidding? Neither are you. And you wanna know what? I dig it!

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

He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.

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.

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.

Karl Kraus

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.