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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• My son's a West Point cadet.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Son
  • Point
  • West

• 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
  • Emotional
  • Thought

• 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 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

• How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that evokes an emotion in you? That became my motto throughout all my life. Simplicity.

  

  Pierre Coffin
  • Life
  • Simplicity

• My wife and I have four children, and none of them are in lab science, so clearly I returned home at night and presented a fairly unattractive example of a scientific life.

  

  Peter Agre
  • Life
  • Children
  • Home

• It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

  

  Ella Maillart
  • Journey

• Christian Science has always appealed to the middle-classes and the upper middle classes. In part, this is because it requires a certain amount of education to study 'Science and Health' to the degree that Christian scientists do. It's not an easy book to read! It's 700 pages, and it's written in a nineteenth-century manner and diction.

  

  Caroline Fraser
  • Book
  • Science
  • Education

• If you're going for things that are really terrible ideas you have to really have all your faculties about you to get away with them without being crucified. The best rock music gets away with something, somehow, that it shouldn't be allowed to get away with.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
  • Faculties
  • Rock Music
  • Terrible Thing

• People call me the human emoji because I think people recognize that if I'm ever thinking something or feeling a certain emotion, it goes straight to my face. So if I'm happy, you'll know I'm happy, and if I'm mad, you'll know I'm mad just by looking at me.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Happy

• The transformation of human consciousness through meditation is frustrated, as long as we think of it in terms as something that I, my self can bring about. because it leads to endless games of spiritual oneupmanship, and Guru competitions.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Long
  • Spiritual
  • Meditation

• I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Sky
  • I Feel Like
  • Swallowed

• If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Competitive
  • Compete

• 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