Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Waters

"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using it as a code for censorship the same way "states' rights" was used to disguise racism in the mid-sixties.

John Wooden

The ability to see the good in others and the bad in ourselves is perfect vision.

Sherry Lansing

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made.

Sheryl Crow

How the world perceives you is largely out of your control.

Sheryl Crow

I was turned down by every record label in L.A. Perseverance is three quarters of the game. Talent's only a quarter. Being able to withstand the word 'no' over and over can build you a pretty tough skin. I knew if I just kept at it, at the very least I'd get better at my craft.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You were right. My whole crew. Gone. Arrested. Perfect. Shoot me now and save me the expense of a bullet later. (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Why’d he call you?” – Sundown “My charming personality.” – Zarek

Sherrilyn Kenyon

See I'm the reckless and wild one who saves him from being boring. It's why we're perfect for each other. We balance. - Madame Selena

Terry Pratchett

Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

Nicolas Malebranche

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

Nicolas Malebranche

One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.

Nicolas Chamfort

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

Nicolas Chamfort

If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.

Nicolas Cage

Nobody wants to watch perfection.

Nick Faldo

The course is perfection and it asks perfection.

Nolan Ryan

I've got a different perception now and it's really enjoyable to be at this point in your life and be able to watch this.

Noomi Rapace

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyones very polite and controls their feelings.

Noomi Rapace

I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.

Nora Ephron

I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?

Nora Roberts

Eve, I know this continues to astound and baffle you, but I actually like to socialize." "I know. If it wasn't for that, you'd be perfect.

Nikolai Gogol

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

Nile Rodgers

I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.

Nikola Tesla

Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.

Nikola Tesla

Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe.

Nikola Tesla

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

Nicole Holofcener

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.

Nicolaus Copernicus

In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as not being articulated, but whole and complete in itself; or because it is the most capacious and therefore best suited for that which is to contain and preserve all things.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

I support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.

Mireille Enos

I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person.

Miranda Lambert

Be confident and comfortable with yourself. If you know us, we are definitely not shy, and never try to be anything we are not. No matter what anyone tells you, you are perfect, just the way you are.