Famous Quotes & Sayings

Preity Zinta

You know what's the worst part about being an actress? It's the pressure to look gorgeous all the time and to behave perfectly. But I'm not perfect, nobody is.

Nelson Mandela

Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.

Nelson DeMille

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

Rabih Alameddine

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness.

Nhat Hanh

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

Nhat Hanh

A bodhisattva doesn't have to be perfect. Anyone who is aware of what is happening and who tries to wake up other people is a bodhisattva. We are all bodhisattvas, doing our best.

Nick Cannon

I always say that candy is the perfect studio food - it keeps your energy going.

Noam Chomsky

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

Mike Nichols

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

Mike Pence

Donald Trump is a charismatic personality bigger than life.

John Ashbery

A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.

Joe Strummer

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Joe Murray

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

Jodi Picoult

You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.

Jodi Picoult

By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

Jodi Picoult

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

Jodi Picoult

How far can a person go... and still live with himself.

Jodi Picoult

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

Jodi Picoult

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

Jodi Picoult

This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.

Jodi Picoult

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

Ken Blanchard

If you don't seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.

Kazuo Ishiguro

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

Kristen Stewart

My family are amazing. I had like, the perfect upbringing. It sucks for people like Lindsey [Lohan], but it's not her fault she's so off the rails.

Kinky Friedman

The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty.

Omar N. Bradley

The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.

Oprah Winfrey

There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you.

Oprah Winfrey

I know that I am more than my personality, my body, and my body image.

Olivia Thirlby

But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film.

Oliver Goldsmith

The very pink of perfection.

Oliver Goldsmith

Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.