Stephen Collins (Stephen Weaver Collins) Quotes

Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.

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• I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Kids
  • Perfect
  • Day

• I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Think
  • Perfect

• Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Way
  • Perfect
  • Yourself

• '24' is such an iconic show.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Show
  • Iconic

• Atlanta is the number one place to live. You live better, you eat better, the rides are better, vehicles is better deals. It's better people. More mean people, but at my level you want it to be about business, so it's perfect for me.

  

  Young Thug
  • People
  • Live
  • Business

• Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Directing

• The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • World
  • American
  • Perfect

• I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Life
  • Great
  • Perfect

• When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Perfect

• Reason tells us that creation never can be perfectly happy. So long as it is incomplete it must put up with imperfection and sorrow. It can only be perfect when it ceases to be creation, and is God. Do our prayers dare go so far?

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Up
  • God
  • Long

• I really enjoy what little time I have at home. The golf course and practice facilities are perfect and so close to home!

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Time
  • Home
  • Perfect

• Most important, though, I had to wait until I found the perfect traveling/eating/drinking/napping companion. And I did finally find him, two years ago - my Brazilian-born, French-speaking, wine-worshipping, tripe-consuming, uncomplaining traveler of a sweetheart.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Important
  • Perfect
  • Wine

• If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Good
  • Important
  • Perfect

• Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Parents
  • Control
  • Perfect

• Kids need role models, whether it's baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and minds. We need to be a little kinder to those people because it's not easy being that role model, looked upon as something we are all incapable of being - too perfect.

  

  David Cassidy
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• Just the title of 'American Idol' is something that people can look up to. I'm not Saint Scott, I'm not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

  

  bell hooks
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Fear

• We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • People
  • Perfect

• One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Life
  • Want
  • Perfect

• I was making love to a man, a man I hardly even know. He was kissing the face off me and I was kissing the face off him. And I found it highly satisfactory.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Men
  • Knows
  • Found

• Something had begun to emanate from Lila’s mobile body that the males sensed, an energy that dazed them, like the swelling sound of beauty arriving. The music had to stop before they returned to themselves.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Music
  • Beauty
  • Sound

• I don't think people should be afraid of portraying people with accents, especially Asian accents.

  

  Nico Santos
  • People
  • Should
  • Accents

• Authors have a nationality; books do not.

  

  Leila Slimani

• Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.

  

  Stephen Collins
  • Perfect
  • Show
  • Inspire