Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Handler

If I were to say, "Yes, I am a fascinating, erudite person," what would that say about me? I don't know.

Daniel Handler

The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

Cloris Leachman

Let whatever's going to happen, happen. Don't judge it before you do it. Sure, sometimes it will be terrible, but sometimes it will just be amazing. That's where the gold is.

Coco Chanel

A woman without perfume is a woman without a future.

Elizabeth Scott

Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.

Elizabeth Taylor

I wear perfume even when I’m alone

B. C. Forbes

How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to be a self-starter than a self-finisher. The victor in the race is not the one who dashes off swiftest but the one who leads at the finish. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter in life's race. In America we breed many hares but not so many tortoises.

B. C. Forbes

When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.

B. C. Forbes

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.

B. C. Forbes

To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.

Asghar Farhadi

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

Apolo Ohno

When you watch a tea ceremony, every single movement, every single gesture is very calculated. It's very precise, and it's all protocol. It's all a part of the system. And it's almost like they've sacrificed every single thing to make that perfect. It's like their craft.

Antonio Banderas

As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.

Basmah bint Saud

I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.

Bayard Taylor

The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

Bayard Taylor

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

Austin Phelps

Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success

Ava Gardner

Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Ava Gardner

The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.

Ashley Olsen

I'm the most private person.

Ashley Montagu

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

Miley Cyrus

I want everything to be perfect, if I'm going to do it.

Miley Cyrus

I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn't one giant press junket. I don't have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.

Godfrey Gao

Sometimes I read that I'm not 100 per cent Chinese, because I don't look all that Chinese. That's a strange one - I am Chinese.

Gigi Hadid

I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that's three times a day or three times per month, then whatever.

We're 99.9 percent sure there was no one else on board.

We're 100 percent going with the flow, no songs whatsoever. That's as structured as it gets.

We're always physical, we'll always play like that. We're going to play a lot quicker than we have played. We're going to press a lot more. We have the personnel that can play the way we want to.

We did real well. We had a lot of personal bests tonight.

Craig Stevens

We didn't talk about the decision at all, which was great, just to get together as friends. The only thing he said to me was 'It's your decision. Just do what you have to do and I will back you 100 per cent.

Charles Fillmore

The mind of the spirit will guide you in perfect ways, even in the minute details of your life, if you will let it do so.