Famous Quotes & Sayings

One person's sprawl is another person's perfect development.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out.

Jane Austen

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

Jane Austen

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

Jane Austen

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

Jane Austen

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well

Jascha Heifetz

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

Jane Yolen

Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.

Jane Smiley

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

Jane Smiley

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

Miley Cyrus

I want everything to be perfect, if I'm going to do it.

Miley Cyrus

I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn't one giant press junket. I don't have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.

I don't remember playing in such perfect conditions.

Ben Roethlisberger

I don't think we're there yet. But we got the win today. That's what's most important. It wasn't a perfect game. But it was a win.

Ben Fountain

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

C. S. Lewis

We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.

Busy Philipps

And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience.

Catherine Keener

Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.

Catherine Ponder

I have unshakeable faith in the perfect outcome of every situation in my life, for God is in absolute control.

Carson Kressley

You don’t have to be perfect to be pretty.

Carol Bartz

I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.

Carol Ann Duffy

How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?

Alan Dershowitz

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

Aimee Mann

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

Charles R. Swindoll

Trusting God doesn't alter our circumstances. Perfect trust in Him changes us.

Charles Darwin

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

Bonnie Hammer

World Screen is a great resource-the perfect one-stop guide to what matters most in global entertainment.

Barbara Bush

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

Aphra Behn

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Bruce Lee

I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.

Brother Lawrence

The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.