Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Rice

The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins.

Anne Rice

You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!

Anne Rice

A perfect world or a world destroyed, one or the other- someday will come the end of hell.

Anne Rice

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

Andre Maurois

Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.

Andy Kindler

I'm still working on my time machine. If I ever perfect it, I'm going back in time to prevent Ace Ventura 2 from being made. And then I'm going after Hitler.

Andy Murray

It would have been better if I had won, but reaching the final was perfect.

Alicia Keys

For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

Alicia Keys

I thought I had to be perfect. I would often make choices I thought would make everyone else happy. I lived at a pace that was "good for my career," whether it was good for me or not. I have learned how important it is to check in with myself and listen, really listen.

Amy Lee

Nobody's perfect. I'm perfectly flawed.

Allen Tate

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

Allen Tate

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

Allen Iverson

I'm not perfect. But I am trying every day to concentrate on being better.

Alison Lohman

But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect

Amy Waldman

There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.

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.

Richard G. Scott

If we are not careful, we will convey the message that investigators have to be perfect. Not true!

Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Bobby Womack

You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.

Bob Edwards

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

Bob Dylan

Never make it perfect.

Billy Childish

I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.

Bonnie Blair

There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.

Bodhidharma

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

Bodhidharma

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.