Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Isaacson

There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth

William Julius Wilson

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

William Katt

I like carrots that have got a bit of personality and have three or four legs! They may look weird but they taste fantastic.

Yo-Yo Ma

Perfection is not very communicative

Winston Churchill

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

Winston Churchill

Perfectionism spells paralysis.

Winston Churchill

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Willie Garson

Perfection is the antithesis of authenticity.

William S. Burroughs

Too perfect to be sexually attractive.

William S. Burroughs

The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

William Law

If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.

Virginia Woolf

But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him- he could not feel. He could reason; he could read, Dante for example, quite easily…he could add up his bill; his brain was perfect; it must be the fault of the world then- that he could not feel.

Woody Hayes

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Woody Hayes

Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.

Woody Harrelson

It's an odd beast, fame. It's got multiple personalities.

Woodrow Wilson

I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

Woodrow Wilson

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

Woodrow Wilson

Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

Wole Soyinka

A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.

Wilson Greatbatch

France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.

William Wallace

Every person dies. Not every person really lives.

Virginia Woolf

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.

Zoe Wanamaker

I dont have the confidence to be a personality.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I don't take gifts from perfect strangers — but then, nobody is perfect.

Zora Neale Hurston

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Zachary Quinto

I was definitely an extroverted personality at a young age and theater was an outlet for me to channel that energy.

Yukio Mishima

For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.

Ze Frank

In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist, so let's not hope for one.

Zainab Salbi

From an economic perspective, women are treated unfairly: they perform 66 percent of the world's work and produce 50 percent of the food but they only earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.

Zayn Malik

I don't need the perfect one, I just need somebody who will make me feel like I'm the only one.

Zig Ziglar

You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.

Yves Saint Laurent

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?