Quotes about per
percentages
There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time. Jonathan Lethem
personality trying degrees
I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or twenty I thought maybe I would try to become a film director. The reason I didn't do it was because I felt I didn't have the right personality. At that time in my life, I was mortally shy.
perfection training lines
A line I like to use is, "Every day is training. Every day of life is a pursuit of perfection." Jonathan Horton
perfect want remember
If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect. Jonathan Franzen
personality sides tunes
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. Jonathan Coe
perfect mind void
That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can never so much as bring itself to conceive of a state of perfect nothing. Jonathan Edwards
perseverance lying fire-burning
I've had a million setbacks along the way--from kiln fires burning down buildings to shipping disasters--that should have put me out of business, or at least left me lying in the fetal position on my bed for a few days. Luckily, though, I've never for one second thought that I had any other option than to just keep going. Jonathan Adler
perfect thank-god cover-ups
When I was 14, I almost had a big green leprechaun tattooed on my forearm. Thank God I didnt - it would have been a nightmare to cover up as an actor. I went with a group of mates and, being Irish, thought a leprechaun would be perfect. Jonas Armstrong
perfect needs film
We need less perfect but more free films. Jonas Mekas
perfect saying-no ifs
If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize. Jonah Goldberg
perfect use realizing
You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect. Jon Stewart
perseverance hunting fishing
The two biggest things that translate from a pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I'm in the woods or out on the water as well. Jon Lester
personality idiosyncrasies
Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling. Joyce Carol Oates
perfect long skins
He's brilliant. At first, I thought, 'Oh, is he going to be Hollywood stud-like?' But he's a really kind, wonderful person. He said to me one day early in the making of the movie, 'You know, I was kind of worried about you'. He thought I was going to be a perfect skin, which I am certainly not. It didn't take long for Leo to crack and see who I really am, and we became very close. but, I must say, he is absolutely gorgeous. Kate Winslet
perception important realizing
I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth. Justin Vernon
perfect relax burden
I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom. Paramahansa Yogananda
perseverance pain endure
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by. Ovid
perfect way negative
It's impossible to make everyone happy. Some will choose to see the negative. None is perfect but find a way of loving them perfectly! Oscar Pistorius
personality body firsts
Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward. Peter Greenaway
perfection
Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach. Percy Bysshe Shelley
perseverance feet persevere
Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet.
perception criticism saws
We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves. Pauline Kael
perfect
Great movies are rarely perfect movies.
persons knows
I am mystified. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.
perfection facts tanks
However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops. Paul von Hindenburg
perfect political heaven
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous! Paul Wellstone
perfection suffering bears
The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
perspective identity language
Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup. Mary Pipher
perfect coats boots
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Mary Oliver
personality shapes living-alone
I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too. Mary Douglas
perspective retrospect continuity
Often continuity is visible only in retrospect. Mary Catherine Bateson
persons
Through the Thou a person becomes I. Martin Buber
perfection matter divine
The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.