Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. H. Auden

As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only possible verdicts we can pass on a book are two: this I like; this I don't like. For an adult reader, the possible verdicts are five: I can see this is good and I like it; I can see this is good but I don't like it; I can see this is good and, though at present I don't like it, I believe that with perseverance I shall come to like it; I can see that this is trash but I like it; I can see that this is trash and I don't like it.

William Cobbett

Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.

William Cobbett

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

William Cowper

All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust.

Wayne Coyne

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.

Wayne Dyer

When you're connected to God, every moment is perfectly perfect.

Wayne Dyer

Living from the perspective at which you came from and returning to source really is an act of remembering, rather than an act of learning.

Wayne Dyer

In the context of eternity, time doesn't matter.

Wayne Dyer

In the East, they contemplate the forest; in the West, they count the trees.

Wayne Dyer

It's all perfect, this Universe we are in. Slow down and enjoy it all.

Wayne Dyer

You are the Beloved, you are the Divine, you are a creation that is made into perfection.

Wayne Dyer

Neither your family nor your culture gave you your personality. You created it yourself.

Wayne Dyer

The biggest questions that always have perplexed me are "Where do I come from?" and "Where am I going?"

Van Morrison

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

Van Morrison

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

Van Morrison

I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.

Ursus Wehrli

I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

Upton Sinclair

I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.

Upton Sinclair

Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.

Tyra Banks

I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.

Tyra Banks

I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.

Troy Aikman

Just remember that nothing is as bad as it seems and nothing is as good as it sometimes appears.

Vladimir Putin

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.

William Goldman

There are always too few perfect breasts in this world; leave yours alone.

William Bartram

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

William Ames

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

William Ames

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

William Arthur Ward

Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.

Warren Zevon

But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

Waylon Jennings

Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.

Stephenie Meyer

Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It's superpowers with a cost. It's having to be the villain, and what do you do about that.

Stephen Baldwin

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

Stephen Colbert

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.