Famous Quotes & Sayings

Linus Torvalds

Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.

Lindsey Vonn

Medals are decided by hundredths of a second, so I need assurance that my vision is perfect every time I compete, no matter what the conditions.

Lindsay Lohan

No one is perfect. It's not interesting to be perfect.

Lil' Kim

I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control.

Leon Battista Alberti

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

Leo Tolstoy

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

Lady Gaga

I'm not interested, Larry, in being a perfect, plastic pop singer that looks great in bikinis and is on the cover of every magazine. I'm more interested in helping my fans to love who they are, and helping them to reject prejudice and reject those things that they're taught from society to not like themselves, to feel like freaks, that they're not wanted.

Lady Gaga

How can I protect something so perfect without evil...

Joyce Maynard

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

Joseph Campbell

The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.

Joseph Campbell

The perfect human being is uninteresting.

Karl Pilkington

A single vision is more perfect than a committee vision because with everyone having their say, it becomes compromised.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I can no longer say my love and your love; they are both alike in their perfect mutuality.

Peter Biskind

'Perfectionist' is the scariest word on a studio lot.

Penelope Cruz

I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the perfect state.

Phil Donahue

This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony.

Peter O'Toole

It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.

Phyllis George

My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain.

Rabindranath Tagore

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

Queen Latifah

There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

Maggie Stiefvater

The thing I was beginning to figure out about Sam and Grace, the thing about Sam not being able to function without her, was that that sort of love only worked when you were sure both people would always be around for each other. If one half of the equation left, or died, or was slightly less perfect in their love, it became the most tragic, pathetic story invented, laughable in its absurdity. Without Grace, Sam was a joke without a punch line.

Maggie Stiefvater

All these perfect days, made of glass Put on the shelf where they can cast perfect shadows that stretch and grow on the imperfect days down below. ... perfect shadows that shift and glow... ... perfect shadows that shift and grow..." "Sam singing on page 256 of Linger.

Maggie Stiefvater

He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.

Maggie Stiefvater

I am not a huge fan of the one-sided pining romances where the guy is a perfect love-object because we don't see inside his head.

Madame de Stael

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.

Haruki Murakami

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

Haruki Murakami

All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.

Haruki Murakami

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.

Haruki Murakami

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

Haruki Murakami

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

Harlan Ellison

Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better.

Gordon Ramsay

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

John Dryden

Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.