Perfect Quotes

In the winter, I read next to a wood-burning stove. In the summer, we have a place up in Michigan where I like to read in a hammock. It's almost entirely hidden by cedar trees and right up by the water. You can climb in there and see nothing but water and be seen by nobody. It's perfect.

Ethan Canin
- Winter
- Climb
- Hammocks
If I can compete five, six times a year that would be perfect.

Jorge Masvidal
- Times
- Would
- Compete

All I ask the haters – is that they strive to perfect their contempt, even consider bringing it to bear on poems, where it will be deepened, not dispelled, and where, by creating a place for possibility and present absences, it might come to resemble love.

Ben Lerner
- Present
- Haters
- Contempt
Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down You had not seen take amber light alive.

Allen Tate
- Mother
- Light
- Alive
Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
- Children
- Wife
- Perfection
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

Maya Lin
- Architecture
- Logic
- Math
It's okay that your parents aren't perfect; no one's are. And it's okay that they didn't have any perfect children either; no one's are. You see, our whole purpose is to strive together in righteousness, overcoming our weaknesses day by day. Don't ever give up on each other.

Ardeth Kapp
- Parents
- Perfect
- Give Up
When you get a bit older and you realise that no one knows what they're doing, no one's perfect and it's fine.

Jessica Brown Findlay
- Perfect
- Realising