Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Legend

Sometimes there's that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears.

John Lancaster Spalding

Make thyself perfect; others, happy.

Emily Post

In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the hostess and the perfect freedom of the guests to occupy their time as they choose.

Elliot Perlman

Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect words that are somehow made imperfect when used to describe her and all that should remain unsaid about her- it is all unsupported by reason. I know that. But that enigmatic calm that attaches itself to people in the presence of reason- it's something from which I haven't been able to take comfort, not reliably, not since her.

Ellen Hopkins

Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?

Ellen Hopkins

‎Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?

Ellen Hopkins

Anger is easier than forgiveness.

Elizabeth Goudge

The perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.

Elizabeth George

God's ways and His will come in His own perfect time.

Elizabeth George

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

Elizabeth Gilbert

He is only happy when he can maintain himself - mentally and spiritually - at the intersection between a vertical line and horizontal one, in a state of perfect balance. For this, he needs to know where he is located every moment, both in his relationship to the divine and to his family here on earth. If he loses that balance, he loses his power.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism.

Josh Gad

I was being flirted with for 'Modern Family,' which my wife still hasn't let me live down, but it's one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn't be any more perfect. It wouldn't have been right for me, and I wouldn't have been right for it.

Josh Groban

After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.

Katherine Center

You don't have to be perfect to be awesome.

Karel Capek

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

Joyce Meyer

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

Joyce Meyer

So what if you're not perfect? nobody else is either.

Joyce Meyer

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

Joyce Meyer

Don’t waste your life waiting until everything is perfect before you start enjoying it.

Katharine Hepburn

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Joshua Homme

Records don't have to be perfect.

Kate Morton

What could be more perfect than marrying the person you love.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Every relationship is messed up. What makes it really perfect is if you still want to be there when things suck.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

Luke Bryan

Alcohol is perfect for me to curb the nerves a little bit.

Ludacris

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

Lucian Freud

Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than it is in the picture. The process is in fact habit-forming.

Louis Auchincloss

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Lori Foster

After A Perfect Storm came out, I heard from a young reader, who had suffered a similar background as Arizona, that I had helped her to find peace. That was the most amazing thing in the world to me.

Loren Eiseley

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

Lord Chesterfield

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.