Famous Quotes & Sayings

I said yes as I am not taking it as a personal matter.

OPEC wants to be perceived as part of the solution, not part of the problem,

My standard is that 100 percent is 100 percent. 99.5 percent would fail.

My source has now voluntarily and personally released me from my promise of confidentiality regarding our conversations relating to the Wilson-Plame matter,

Chris Carpenter

My performance (today) was unacceptable and made me want to puke.

My perception is that we're making considerable progress. But not as much progress as we thought that we would make.

Lanny Poffo

Let me stop you right there. Ten arrests, no convictions, I've got a perfect record.

Duncan Fletcher

Marcus has to go back for personal reasons. I think we have to respect the privacy of the matter.

Alice Munro

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

Alice Cooper

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Anne Lamott

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

Anne Lamott

You are not your bank account, our your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.

Ann Voskamp

If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?

Andy Pettitte

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

Alber Elbaz

I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.

Albert Bandura

The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring the very circumstances that serve to nourish them

Albert Camus

Morality, when formal, devours.

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 Leibovitz

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

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 Lennox

In a way, it's all down to perception, isn't it? And everyone has their own take on everything.

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.

Clay Aiken

I really love live performing!

Clay Aiken

Perseverance. I got cut twice. I got cut in Charlotte. I didn't have to go to Atlanta to audition. I could have said, "I'm not cut out for this." But I said, "I think I'm better than that, I can go try again." So I went to Atlanta and I made it through. Then I got cut the first time around. I could have told them I didn't want to come back for the Wild Card show but I did and look how far I got.

Clayton Christensen

If you want to make better theory, you've got to use the best that's available and look through the lens of another discipline to see if you can uncover more anomalies. By looking at the phenomena of failure from the perspective of sales, marketing, finance, general management, and the equity markets, I was able to see things that Rebecca [Henderson] hadn't.

From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.

Daniel J. Boorstin

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

D. A. Carson

Others have questions about how it is that God and human beings can both be speaking through the one document such that you can see and read the personalities of the human authors with their individual vocabularies and literary genres, and yet this is nevertheless the word of God. How can that be? This is quite a contrast with Islam, for example, which holds that the Koran has been dictated in Arabic by God and as a result Mohammed is nothing more than the one who memorizes the word so as to pass it on. There is nothing of human contribution.

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.

Curly Howard

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.