Famous Quotes & Sayings

Raymond Chandler

Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

Rebecca Solnit

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

Rick Yancey

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

Rick Warren

A ministry doesn't have to be perfect for God to use and bless it.

Rick Warren

The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.

Rick Warren

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

Rick Warren

If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

Tony Snow

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

Tony Snow

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

Veronica Roth

It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.

Vince Vaughn

I'm not perfect, but who are we kidding? Neither are you. And you wanna know what? I dig it!

Vince Lombardi

True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

Vince Lombardi

Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

Robert Graves

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Stockwell Day

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

Sonny Rollins

We have to make ourselves as perfect as we can.

Steve Jobs

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

Stephen Potter

Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between oblivion and the divine Untergang of infinite recession.

Stephen Fry

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

Sri Chinmoy

Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfillment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer.

Sri Aurobindo

Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind.

Sri Chinmoy

What we call our joy, God calls our perfection. Each human being has come into the world with the message of perfection. Each human being will one day realize the highest Truth. Each human being is destined to be fulfilled. It is the birthright of our soul.

Sri Chinmoy

There is only one perfect road and that road is ahead of you, always ahead of you.

Sri Chinmoy

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

Sri Chinmoy

Now is the time to make good use of time. Today is the day to begin a perfect day.

Roger Rosenblatt

One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is perfect in itself, verifies that individuals own potential perfection.

Rupert Murdoch

Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!

Rush Limbaugh

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.

Virginia Postrel

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.

Virginia Graham

I have the perfect face for radio.

William Cobbett

Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.

William Cowper

All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust.