Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean de la Bruyere

It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.

Jay-Z

Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.

Jay Leno

A Christmas tree--the perfect gift for a guy. The plant is already dead.

Mikaela Shiffrin

A perfect day for me would just be a day that goes the way I plan.

Kirk Cameron

I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing.

Kim Yuna

My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

Kevin Flynn

The thing about perfection is that it is unknowable, it's impossible, but its also right in front of us, all the time

Kevin Griffin

That perfect day, that magic moment that we're all waiting for, is right now.

Kenneth Williams

A genial and cultured Arab, Ameen Rihani, whose English is perfect and whose eloquence is astounding. He will discuss with equal eagerness and knowledge the merits of Picasso or Van Gogh, or the Zionist question, or the British achievements in Arabia.

Ken Goldberg

Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

Ken Goldberg

Interferometry, like surfing, is a search for the perfect wave. But physicists don't have to paddle around and wait.

Kathleen Hanna

Internalized sexism that makes us feel like we can't show ourselves not being perfect.

Julia Cameron

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

Kristin Hersh

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

Murray Rothbard

The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection

Moliere

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

Molly Ivins

Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste of anger. You will notice a certain theme to these Emily Litella Moments. Behind them all is a touching faith that someone, somewhere is actually in charge of what's happening - a proposition I beg leave to doubt.

Greg Kinnear

If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.

Grace Jones

We're not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

George Herbert

No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.

Jessica Simpson

A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.

Jessica Simpson

It's been hard, but I've finally come to the realization that it's okay to not be perfect.

Jessica Simpson

I have amazing boobs. They're just perfect.

Jennifer Beals

It's been perfect. I can still ride a subway and work with great people. I can't imagine being Julia Roberts. I don't have the fortitude to withstand that kind of attention.

Jennifer Aniston

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

Hunter S. Thompson

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

Hunter S. Thompson

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Hubert H. Humphrey

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

Howard Bragman

Everything is perfect until it's not.

Honore de Balzac

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Even women are perfect at the outset.

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

Hugh Mackay

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.