Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allen Tate

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

Allen Tate

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

Allen Iverson

I'm not perfect. But I am trying every day to concentrate on being better.

Alison Jackson

I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.

Alison Jackson

You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.

Alison Lohman

But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect

Ann Landers

Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.

Andrea Corr

I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?

Amy Waldman

There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.

Aesop

Plodding wins the race.

Helen McCrory

You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will be someone you simply didn't notice on set that on screen: bam!

Philippe Petit

Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.

We'll be working 100 percent for Jan in the tour, there'll be no personal ambitions.

John Clare

We're all in this together for some period of time,

Terry Semel

We've done that, and they now represent approximately 40 percent of our total revenue.

What you see here on the facility, we are probably running about 90 percent of our workforce.

What you don't read about, it's never a story of the 98 percent who are doing things right and view this as a public service and want it to work.

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out.

Kara Walker

I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.

Lynsey Addario

I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.

Jane Austen

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

Jane Austen

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

Jane Austen

When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.

Jane Austen

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

Jane Austen

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well

Jamie Redknapp

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

Jascha Heifetz

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

Janet Reno

I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

Jane Yolen

Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.

Jane Smiley

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

Jane Smiley

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.