Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I've never done a period piece or a comedy, and that could be something truly different for me.

I've always said the performance is more important than the result sometimes, and the performance wasn't very good.

Michelle Gomez

I've always been a gurner. I tried to reel it in. You know there was a period when I thought I was going to be a really serious actress, but the gurning... I can't get in control of it. It just runs away with me.

Richard Whately

Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.

Richelle Mead

I stopped. She was bleeding after all. Perfect lines crossed her wrists, not near any crucial veins, but enough to leave wet red tracks across her skin. She hadn;t hit her veins when she did this; death hadn't been her goal.

Richelle Mead

... imperfection would get me farther than perfection.

Richelle Mead

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)

Richelle Mead

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

Richard Baxter

Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their food.

Richard Baxter

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

Richard Bach

If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.

Richard Bach

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.

Russell Brand

As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

Roy Yamaguchi

I love showing my personality in my cooking.

Troy Glaus

You're not always going to be perfect, but I always try to be.

Troy Polamalu

All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.

Truman Capote

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

Trisha Goddard

I am an addictive personality.

Travis Barker

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

Rick Hendrick

Perseverance: Try and try again until the goal is achieved. Never give up.

Richard DeVos

Great moments await around every corner.

Richard DeVos

Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.

Richard DeVos

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

Raymond Chandler

Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

Reid Hoffman

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

Reid Hoffman

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.

Rebecca Solnit

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

Rick Springfield

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.

Rick Yancey

Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

Rick Yancey

Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.

Rick Warren

A ministry doesn't have to be perfect for God to use and bless it.

Rick Warren

The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.

Rick Warren

Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.