Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Pryor

I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.

Richard Le Gallienne

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

Richard Le Gallienne

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

Tucker Max

I take a lull from my CamelBak and choke at its potency. It tastes like bad decisions. It's perfect.

Tucker Max

This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.

Tullian Tchividjian

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

Tullian Tchividjian

The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

Tullian Tchividjian

There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.

Tupac Shakur

Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer.

Tupac Shakur

I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

Tupac Shakur

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.

Tupac Shakur

Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance...

Tracy McMillan

Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while: nothing is perfect.

Saul Bellow

Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.

Sarah Dessen

Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.

Sarah Dessen

How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.

Sarah Dessen

It took a lot of work to be perfect.

Sarah Dessen

I knew that it wouldn’t last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.

Sarah Dessen

The thing is I'm a great believer in the perfect moment. They don't come around that often.

Sarah Dessen

It was just perfect, just right all at once.

Sarah Dessen

You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.

Sandra Day O'Connor

The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.

Roseanne Barr

Anyone with a show on T.V. will tell you it's backbreaking work. And if you have a big personality, which I have, and you're a perfectionist, there's going to be head-butting.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

Where there's a will there's a dead person.

Ronnie Wood

I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem.

Rohinton Mistry

There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

Roger Waters

Can't you see it all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents, pounds shillings and pence, can't you see it all; makes perfect sense

Roger Ebert

Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.

Rod Paige

To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that last a lifetime: critical analysis skills, the ability to deal with ambiguity and to solve problems, perseverance and a drive for excellence. Moreover, the creative skills children develop through the arts carry them toward new ideas, new experiences, and new challenges, not to mention personal satisfaction. This is the intrinsic value of the arts, and it cannot be overestimated.

Robin Morgan

Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.

Robin McKinley

I said with perfect honest, "I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.

Robert Wise

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.