Viola Davis Quotes

I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.

Viola Davis

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• I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Love
  • Perfect

• Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Control
  • Perfect
  • Democracy

• These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Perfect
  • Indifference
  • Indecent

• We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Night

• Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Reality
  • You
  • Perfect

• To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Perfect
  • Many
  • Moderation

• All of my characters are less than perfect.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Perfect
  • Characters
  • Less

• I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Food
  • Stop
  • Perfect

• Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • American
  • Fear
  • Now

• Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Design

• I love Clinique. Their moisturizer is amazing. My skin tends to be really oily, but then at times I'm dry, and that's the perfect amount of moisturizer.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Love
  • Perfect
  • Amazing

• We're having such a great time on 'Nashville' that building on the relationship seemed an obvious next step. Lionsgate is the perfect home for the kind of scripted television I want to produce and direct.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Time
  • Great
  • Home

• The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of ridding yourself of fear!

  

  Vash Young
  • Long
  • Real
  • Together

• My face is not perfect. Because my nose is not sharp, many people suggested I should get my nose done.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • People
  • Done
  • Perfect

• I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Wanted
  • Really
  • Doctor

• 'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Music
  • Perfect

• Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.

  

  Max Levchin
  • Perfect
  • Technology
  • Growth

• In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

  

  George Pierce Baker
  • Great
  • Freedom
  • Perfect

• But I do know that there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can’t always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Help
  • Listening
  • Interest

• Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Water
  • Moon
  • Need

• There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem.

  

  Brett Brown
  • Problem
  • Pride
  • Score

• I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Perfect
  • Wanted
  • Shows