Perfect Quotes

• 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

• Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Life
  • Family
  • Idea

• I feel like a hit will come whenever it does, but I don't want to sit in a studio trying to figure out the magic formula and mixing spices and trying to come up with the perfect song.

  

  Jacob Whitesides
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Song

• Heroes aren't perfect.

  

  Melanie Scrofano
  • Perfect

• Yes, it's important to make things great, and you can certainly do this by upgrading over time, but good and profitable is better than perfect and never done.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• My ex-boyfriend said, 'You have a better chance of getting elected to Congress than getting on the staff of a television show.' Which was the perfect thing for him to say, because my entire career is, 'Well, screw you.' And we broke up.

  

  Jenji Kohan
  • Up
  • Career
  • Boyfriend

• I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Career

• Why does it seem to be more and more challenging to find a perfect mate or maintain a happy and compatible relationship? Was love always this difficult? Haven't we heard stories of people being truly fulfilled and happy in love? Is love a myth? There are more people on the planet than ever before, and traveling the world has never been easier. Not only that; now we can use technologies like the Internet to connect with others. So what is the problem? Why does it seem to be more complicated than ever to meet the right person and live happily ever after?

  

  Pamala Oslie
  • People
  • Love
  • Technology

• The bodies of which the world is composed are solids, and therefore have three dimensions. Now, three is the most perfect number,-it is the first of numbers, for of one we do not speak as a number, of two we say both, but three is the first number of which we say all. Moreover, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

  

  Aristotle
  • World
  • Beginning
  • End

• I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.

  

  Jake Busey
  • Work
  • Different
  • Trying

• I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Faith

• When my body and face were perfect as far as youth, I wasn't happy.

  

  Jennifer Grey
  • Happy
  • Perfect

• I have long been of the mindset that aviators are like leather jackets - when they're perfect, they give you 'instant cool.' They're the Alexa Chung of sunglasses.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Long
  • Cool
  • Mindset

• My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

  

  Charles V
  • Perfect
  • Cousin

• Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Experience
  • Perfect
  • Practice

• A fine book, in the perfect setting, when there's all the time in the world to read it: Life holds greater joys, but none come to mind just now.

  

  Mary Roach
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• My perfect day would start with a kiss from my daughter. I would drive her to school listening to our favourite punk rock music on loud in the car.

  

  Bianca Balti
  • Music
  • School
  • Rock

• Every traveler knows too well the endless quest for the perfect travel bag: the one that's stylish enough to carry through Paris, sturdy enough to tote around Peru, and - most important - doesn't make your shoulder sag even before you've loaded it up with everything you need for a day of sightseeing.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Up
  • Important
  • Day

• My Saviour! fill up the blurred and blotted sketch which my clumsy hand has drawn of a Divine life, with the fullness of Thy perfect picture. I feel the beauty I cannot realize; robe me in Thine unutterable purity.

  

  Frederick William Robertson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hand

• I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• I want a world where everything is welcome, everything is valid, everything is acknowledged, embraced, and accepted. To me, that's a perfect world.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • World
  • Perfect

• All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Time
  • Different
  • Earth

• Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we aren't perfect.

  

  Fred Rogers
  • Perfect

• This turbulent world is far from a perfect place.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • World
  • Perfect

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