Stephanie Perkins Quotes

Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.

Stephanie Perkins

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• The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Star
  • Budget
  • Presentation

• My son's a West Point cadet.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Son
  • Point
  • West

• I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • America
  • Parents
  • Worked

• Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Risk
  • Impact
  • Debt

• It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.

  

  Vanity
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Jesus

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe
  • Sun
  • I Believe

• Ever since I was little, I've always liked to smash things.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Always
  • Little
  • Ever

• I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Love
  • Winning
  • Losing

• The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Thought
  • Emotional

• There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People

• However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.

  

  Mary Beard
  • May

• Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Hate

• You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Up
  • Small
  • Period

• I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • People

• When I'm with my wife, I know she's a beautiful woman. I know that, and more than that, it's what she is inside. She's beautiful inside; she loves music like I do. That's the thing that brought us together and probably keeps us together.

  

  Ronnie Milsap
  • Music
  • She
  • Together

• I love epistolary novels and became wildly excited when the form presented itself to me.

  

  Maria Semple

• That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.

  

  Bert Lahr
  • Career
  • Hurt
  • Picture

• Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is most pleasing to God, and most useful to ourselves. Do not then, O devout soul, refuse to begin this devotion; and forsaking the conversation of men, dwell each day, from this time forward, for at least half or quarter of an hour, in some church, in the presence of Jesus Christ under the sacramental species. Taste and see how sweet is the Lord.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Time
  • God
  • Men

• You're not meant to do what's easy, you're meant to challenge yourself.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Challenge
  • Easy
  • Challenges

• Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.

  

  Stephanie Perkins
  • Thinking
  • Perfect
  • Boring