Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Schwitters

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

Neil Postman

A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.

Neil Postman

...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently be submerged in the interests of group cohesion, and that learning to be critical and to think conceptually and rigorously do not come easily to the young but are hard-fought victories.

Neil Peart

No changes are permanent, but change is.

Stephanie Klein

Don't be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You're not perfect, fine. Learn from it. But don't punish yourself. Be kind to you, even when you screw up. You'll bounce back eventually. You'll make up for it.

V. S. Pritchett

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Val Kilmer

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

Val Kilmer

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

Vaclav Havel

Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.

Usher

Success is measured by personal happiness.

Susie Orbach

Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.

Suzanne Collins

Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say. "Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience," he says. "Look at the courage Peeta just displayed!" It's all I can do not to slap him.

Suzanne Collins

it is a perfect weapon

Taylor Swift

I realized that I have very long arms so I can take the perfect arm-length picture with fans

Sophocles

To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.

Stephanie Seymour

Education always continues. We all know that beauty fades, but what stays is a person's personality, their sense of humor, their wit, what they're interested in. That's what really shines.

Starhawk

In the Craft the Goddess is not omnipotent. The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control.

Stan Getz

I'm a recovered alcoholic. I don't do anything anymore, but those things, those things take away ... You're a different personality completely when you take those. For those who are really chemically dependent on anything, it's not you.

Stan Lee

No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I'm the messiest person I know.

Sophie Swetchine

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Sophie Swetchine

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

Sonakshi Sinha

Be comfortable; be you. Whats most important is to understand what suits your body type and personality. Stick to that, and you cant go wrong!

Taylor Momsen

Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.

Taylor Swift

Love has absolutely no pattern, and no one will ever be perfect.

Taylor Swift

You can stay the same person you've always been even if everything around you changes.

Stanley Milgram

It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)

Stanley Kunitz

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

Stanley Kubrick

You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.

Stanley Kubrick

There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

Soren Kierkegaard

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

Stephen Strasburg

I don’t need to go out there and trick guys, and I don’t need to go out there and be perfect. I've just got to attack the strike zone, let my stuff work and get much better results that way.

Stephenie Meyer

dont be afraid", i murmured. "We belong together." I was abruptly overwhelmed by th truth of my own words. This moment was so perfect, there was no way to boubt it. His arms wrapped around me, holding me against him...It felt like every nerve ending in my body was a live wire. "Forever," he agreed.