Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Abraham Maslow

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

Abraham Maslow

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

Abraham Maslow

We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.

Theophilus London

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

Ludwig von Mises

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

I said in Spring Training that was the perfect spot for him.

It is not a perfect world. But we can do better.

Mel Kiper

I think that makes a lot of sense. For the type of scheme they play, he would be perfect for what they need.

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Jake Delhomme

I thought because we had never run it out of that formation at all -- I just thought it was the perfect call.

Alicia Keys

For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

Alicia Keys

I thought I had to be perfect. I would often make choices I thought would make everyone else happy. I lived at a pace that was "good for my career," whether it was good for me or not. I have learned how important it is to check in with myself and listen, really listen.

Alice Munro

Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.

Anne Lamott

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

Andy Pettitte

It kills me when I make a bad pitch...I want to be perfect out there.

America Ferrera

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I’m born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don’t speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker

Amanda Palmer

You're not going to be perfect, you're not going to stop berating yourself, you're not going to stop the comparisons, you're not going to stop the judgment, but you can become evermore mindful of it, and that has to be good enough.

Annie Lennox

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

Annie Dillard

Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection.

D. H. Lawrence

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

D. H. Lawrence

The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.

Alexander Pope

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

Debbie Ford

There's only person in the world you can't see - yourself. But, God created - or whoever created us, we don't even have to argue that point - created us so perfect because we can actually see ourselves in other people.

Debbie Ford

Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding out that trying to be perfect is costly.

Drew Barrymore

Nobdoy is solid and perfect all of the time.

Drew Barrymore

When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

Dylan O'Brien

The perfect date is the one where anything and everything goes wrong, but at the end of it, all you want is to see them again.