Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him- he could not feel. He could reason; he could read, Dante for example, quite easily…he could add up his bill; his brain was perfect; it must be the fault of the world then- that he could not feel.

Woody Hayes

Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.

Woodrow Wilson

Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

William Shenstone

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

William Shatner

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

William Shatner

We were basically one and the same, although Jim [Kirk] was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.

William Gibson

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

Saint Francis de Sales

Naturally we all have an inclination to command, and a great aversion to obey; and yet it is certain that it is more for our good to obey than to command; hence perfect souls have always had a great affection for obedience, and have found all their joy and comfort in it.

Saint Francis de Sales

We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.

Saint Augustine

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

Wilson Greatbatch

France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.

Virginia Woolf

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I don't take gifts from perfect strangers — but then, nobody is perfect.

Ze Frank

In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist, so let's not hope for one.

Zayn Malik

I don't need the perfect one, I just need somebody who will make me feel like I'm the only one.

Yves Saint Laurent

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

William Harvey

There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

William Hazlitt

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

William Hazlitt

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

William Hazlitt

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

Walter Pater

The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts

W. Somerset Maugham

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

W. Somerset Maugham

There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

W. Somerset Maugham

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

Vladimir Nabokov

And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.

Vladimir Nabokov

Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?

Yotam Ottolenghi

A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

[I] do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.