Perfect Quotes

I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.

Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.

Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was this that gave zest to labor and served to measure the degree of success.

What's perfect now, might not be so 10 years hence. Whatever we're basing our design ideas on is not what we remember in the past. It's something that kind of folds in on itself.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

He was beautiful the way an angel is beautiful - timeless, perfect, remote.

Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.

There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that's what's most precious.

I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find their perfect home.

People are human. There's such a premium today on being perfect. That's just not the way people are.

I don't think you have to be perfect to be a role model.

I have always wanted to come and play in MLS so it’s the perfect combination for me and a dream come true.

Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.

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.

They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.

I'd rather have a picture-perfect body than a million dollars in my pocket.

Death is only perfect rest.

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

I said with perfect honest, "I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

Anything can go wrong in a debate, and Obama is not a perfect debater.

I would say nobody is perfect. I don't know all the answers. I have don't want to run people's lives and run the world and run the economy. So, my qualifications are a little bit different.

When programming was my hobby, I thought that programming would be the perfect job. Now I program for a living and build boats for a hobby. Guess what I think would be the perfect job :)

I'm the perfect candidate to be affected by SARS. I'm highly susceptible to infections.

I know that I don't have a perfect performance that I bring to set. I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable, based on what the other person gives me.

The 'perfect marriage' of food and wine should allow for infidelity".

The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring.

It's just that that feels discriminatory to me, "the ideal woman." The concept of ideal is fleeting. It's like "perfect." There's no such thing.

For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, … they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made perfect.

There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?

In YC experience, 2 or 3 co-founders seems to be about perfect.

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

Sure, I've done movies in which I was embarrassed by my performance, or might not have cared for a co-star. Then I'd have to tell lies, like, 'Oh, we love each other; everything was perfect!'

There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.

Remember the importance of phrases... a piece of something, an entry, a moment, a mark. This adjusts the pressure of the giant task of creating the perfect masterwork.

At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing.

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with

Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.

Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

It took a lot of work to be perfect.

It was just perfect, just right all at once.

Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.

Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I can, but you reach a point as the author where you have lost all perspective.

How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.