Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

B. J. Novak

Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.

Azzedine Alaia

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

Cecelia Ahern

Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs?

Cecelia Ahern

You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles.

Bill Bryson

Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and notice, with a kind of first-time astonishment, the amazing complex delicacy of the words, the casual ease with which elemental things come together to form a composition that is—whatever the season, wherever I put my besotted gaze—perfect.

Anton Corbijn

Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

and City

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

Philip Hoffman

I wish there was a podium here - you wouldn't see my knees shaking.

Ayn Rand

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

Ted Taylor

Since my knees wore out, I quit officiating.

Matthew Wright

Miss Lees had multiple abrasions to her knees and elbow. . . and a scratch to her lower back,

Adam Savage

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

Billy Graham

No nation is ever taller than when on its knees...

Mikhail Gorbachev

You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out.

Randy Houser

First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.

Tim Scott

I remember walking down the aisle, and I got down on my knees as a person who is so selfish, but when I rose back up the Lord had become the Master of my life.

Steve Cram

Paula Radcliffe needs to be gutsy to win the London Marathon.

Anthony Zuiker

I think Clive Owen could do CSI London in a heartbeat,

Stephen Dorff

I'd like to make a movie in the South of France. I'd like to make a movie in London again. And, I'm going to make a movie in Amsterdam.

Benjamin Disraeli

London is a modern Babylon.

Benjamin Disraeli

The gondola of London [a hansom].

Britney Spears

I'm gonna start off somewhere small like London or England.

Debra Messing

I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life

Lauren Willig

I'm an eighteenth-century girl at heart. I wouldn't mind being set down in London in 1715, in the midst of all the drama of the Hanoverian succession.

Alex Ferguson

There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.