Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Holt

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.

Tom Hodgkinson

There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m.

Tom Verlaine

I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work under. Otherwise, speaking for myself, you may as well be in the advertising business.

Tom T. Hall

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

Thomas Keller

It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

Thomas Bernhard

Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a fragment, whereas the whole and the complete and the perfect are basically abhorrent.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

Vin Diesel

I'm a perfectionist. I'm very critical, especially artistically.

Victoria Principal

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

Victoria Woodhull

I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.

Victoria Justice

Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

Victoria Moran

I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.

Victoria Beckham

My aim is to create the perfect dress!

Victoria Azarenka

Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.

Victor Hugo

There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

Vernor Vinge

One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

Vernon Howard

A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.

Veronica Roth

No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.

New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a perfect place for me.

Richard Strauss

On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.

Rene Redzepi

If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.

Renee Fleming

I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit.

Thomas Cole

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

Thomas de Quincey

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.

Rumi

Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen.

Rumi

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

Rumi

There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

Tom Petty

Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.

Tom Peters

Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.

Tom Robbins

People are never perfect, but love can be.

Tom Ford

There is no more dramatic accessory than a perfect lip. It is the focus of the face and it has the power to define a woman's whole look.

Tom Ford

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well