Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerard Way

It's for the hamster that I'm gonna buy! This is so perfect! (after opening a hamster wheel at Christmas)

George Washington

A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.

George Washington

And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.

George Orwell

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

George Meredith

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

G. M. Trevelyan

Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

John Ruskin

Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

John Ruskin

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

John Ruskin

Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.

John Ruskin

Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.

John Ruskin

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

John Owen

There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience.

John Milton

God made thee perfect, not immutable.

Norm MacDonald

I tried to make the punchline as close to the setup as I could. And I thought that was the perfect thing. If I could make the setup and the punchline identical to each other, I would create a different kind of joke.

Norm MacDonald

I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

Noel Coward

Bed is the perfect climate.

Noel Gallagher

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

Mike Yaconelli

Spirituality isn't about being finished and perfect; spirituality is about trusting God in our unfinishedness.

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.

Jonathan Edwards

That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can never so much as bring itself to conceive of a state of perfect nothing.

Jonas Armstrong

When I was 14, I almost had a big green leprechaun tattooed on my forearm. Thank God I didnt - it would have been a nightmare to cover up as an actor. I went with a group of mates and, being Irish, thought a leprechaun would be perfect.

Jonas Mekas

We need less perfect but more free films.

Jonah Goldberg

If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

Jon Stewart

You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.

Kate Winslet

He's brilliant. At first, I thought, 'Oh, is he going to be Hollywood stud-like?' But he's a really kind, wonderful person. He said to me one day early in the making of the movie, 'You know, I was kind of worried about you'. He thought I was going to be a perfect skin, which I am certainly not. It didn't take long for Leo to crack and see who I really am, and we became very close. but, I must say, he is absolutely gorgeous.