Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Shriver

Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.

Frank Luntz

When you're selling a product or service, you don't have - it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, although I've provided language that is. When you're a politician, one wrong word changes the entire - changes the meaning of something.

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.

Lord Chesterfield

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Lupita Nyong'o

Seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

Matthew Arnold

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

Matthew Arnold

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Meg Rosoff

If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.

Meg Whitman

'Perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough'.

Meg Cabot

Some people can seem perfect... everything about them can, on paper, be just right. Until you get to know them. Really know them. Then you find out, in the end, while they might be perfect to every one else, they just aren't right for you.

Meg Cabot

But once I'd come up with it, I realized it really was the perfect plan. Instead of waiting for Maria to come to me, I was simply going to go to her and, well... Send her back to where she came. Or reduce her to a mound of quivering gelatinous goo. Whichever came first.

May-Britt Moser

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don’t really know what the final result will be before you have it.

Marina Abramovic

It's okay that we're not perfect. It's okay that we all have problems. It's okay to cry, to show emotions.

Robert Henri

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

Edward de Bono

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Hoda Kotb

Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.

John F. Kennedy

You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.

Jonathan Lethem

Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.

Jonathan Lethem

I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.

Jonathan Horton

A line I like to use is, "Every day is training. Every day of life is a pursuit of perfection."

Jonathan Franzen

If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.