Perfect famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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All you nerds out there (me included) - don't always rely on stats for the perfect answer.
-- Bobby Bragan -
I love working with big flavors like chiles and smoke. Honey is perfect for softening the edges, mellowing them out a bit. I put it in everything - vinaigrettes, soups, stocks, salsas, so I'm always on the hunt for great honey.
-- Bobby Flay -
Its a dog eat dog world, and Mr. Perfect is a Milk Bone.
-- Bobby Heenan -
You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.
-- Bobby Womack -
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
-- Bodhidharma -
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.
-- Bodhidharma -
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
-- Boethius -
World Screen is a great resource-the perfect one-stop guide to what matters most in global entertainment.
-- Bonnie Hammer -
I love 'Goodfellas' because it's a great movie - it's funny and there is action at perfect points. I just think Martin Scorsese makes everyone look really cool.
-- Booboo Stewart -
Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.
-- Boris Beizer -
My forte was the middlegame. I had a good feeling for the critical moments of the play. This undoubtedly compensated for my lack of opening preparation and, possibly, not altogether perfect play in the endgame. In my games things often did not reach the endgame!
-- Boris Spassky -
Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheve  qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.
-- Boris Vian -
Without a doubt, the next few minutes would be the most hellishly exciting in my life. Grinding pain and killer fatigue waited just beyond the word, "Partez." But I tried to ignore those prespects, and concentrate on the priceless feelings that also awaited. I thought about the perfect strokes we would take, and about the merciless surge of power we would unleash in the last 500 meters.
-- Brad Alan Lewis -
MCP, maximum controled pressure. No tomorrow, no waiting, nothing beyond the moment. We seek the perfect balance-total abandon on the drive, total control on the recovery.
-- Brad Alan Lewis -
The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten minutes too much? No one knows. Perhaps someday the question will be answered-we'll find out that thirteen minutes is the perfect length for a training piece when preparing for a 2000 meter race. Until then, coaches will continue exploring the whole scale, up and down, from thirty seconds to sixty minutes and more, in hopes of capturing the optimum time.
-- Brad Alan Lewis -
I'm a big fan of pops of color, but I thought I would take that to the next level and do a color-blocked Rolex. This watch is the perfect accessory whether you're wearing a tee and jeans or a well-tailored suit.
-- Brad Goreski -
My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
-- Brad Meltzer -
She's not perfect, but she tries so hard for me. And I thank God, that she isn't, cause how boring that would be.
-- Brad Paisley -
The best moments can't be preconceived. I've spent a lot of time in editing rooms, and a scene can be technically perfect, with perfect delivery and facial expression and timing, and you remember all your lines, and it is dead.
-- Brad Pitt -
Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.
-- Brandon Boyd -
Don't wait for perfect. Don't wait for something to be fully formed in your head to start on it. Just start, and then work it out as you go.
-- Brandon Stanton -
Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
-- Branford Marsalis -
I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice.
-- Brenda Holloway -
Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.
-- Brené Brown -
Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.
-- Brené Brown -
Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.
-- Brené Brown -
The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.
-- Brent Weeks -
No one will ever be as good at being you as you. So start there. Perfect is boring.
-- Brett Dalton -
I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of that. Sickness and death are part of life. But you can optimize your life. You can make progress as you strive toward perfection.
-- Brian Carter -
HubSpot's CRM and Sidekick are perfect for companies that want to transform how they attract, engage, and delight prospects, customers and leads and want sales technology that matches today's buying process.
-- Brian Halligan -
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
-- Brian Tracy -
Imagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every respect.
-- Brian Tracy -
The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do.
-- Brian Tracy -
Maybe you're not perfect, but you're willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That's a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there's something incredibly hopeful about that.
-- Brie Larson -
Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.
-- Brigham Young -
We are doing well, notwithstanding all our failings and weaknesses; but the Lord would like to have us a little more diligent; he would like us to cleave a little more closely to the things of his kingdom, have more of his Spirit, and know more of him and of one another, that complete and perfect confidence can be restored.
-- Brigham Young -
I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first.
-- Brit Marling -
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
-- Broderick Crawford -
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
-- Brooks Atkinson -
The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.
-- Brother Lawrence -
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and enjoyable for one reader as the next. But novels and other book-length narratives are great rambling things that always contain some flaws. For works of any length, there comes a point when your continued tinkering won't improve the whole, but will just trade one set of problems for another.
-- Bruce Holland Rogers -
I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.
-- Bruce Lee -
The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease.
-- Bruce Lee -
Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.
-- Bruce Lee -
The most important things that any member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ever does in this world are: 1. To marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority; and 2. To keep the covenant made in connection with the holy and perfect order of matrimony-thus assuring the obedient persons of an inheritance of exaltation in the celestial kingdom.
-- Bruce R. McConkie -
If perfect's what you're searching for, then just stay the same.
-- Bruno Mars -
In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.'
-- Bryan Volpenhein -
Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.
-- Buddy Guy -
And I know I’m not perfect. But I believe I was meant to be.
-- Buddy Wakefield -
She was the best model because she not only had perfect facial features, but a great body and wasn't ashamed to show it. It was impossible to take a bad photo of her. Bettie Page was always ready for the camera's eye.
-- Bunny Yeager -
With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else
-- Busta Rhymes -
And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience.
-- Busy Philipps -
The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.
-- Byron Katie -
The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.
-- Byron Katie -
The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious.
-- Byron Katie -
Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.
-- C. Northcote Parkinson -
The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination
-- C. S. Lewis -
When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.
-- C. S. Lewis -
We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
-- C. S. Lewis -
God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
-- C. S. Lewis -
It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
-- Camilla Luddington -
Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.
-- Camille Paglia -
Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose that uses the tricks of poetry, such as dense imagery. This is a big topic of debate in poetry land. There's no perfect definition.
-- Campbell McGrath -
one of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God ...
-- Candace Wheeler -
The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.
-- Candice Olson -
All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.
-- Caprice Crane -
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
-- Carl Sagan -
Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.
-- Carl Sagan -
The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.
-- Carl Sagan -
The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better.
-- Carmelo Anthony -
Was I a perfect gastric-bypass patient? Yes. Was I a perfect gastric-bypass pregnant woman? No. I made a decision to enjoy my pregnancy... So sue me!
-- Carnie Wilson -
How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?
-- Carol Ann Duffy -
We're all at different places on the path. But we can work together to help each other 'press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men.'
-- Carole M. Stephens -
Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.
-- Carolina Herrera -
I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinite; it's only when you start pinning words to paper that it becomes less than perfect. You have to make your choices, set your limits. Start whittling away at the cosmos, and don't stop until you've narrowed it down to a single, ordinary speck of dirt. And in the end, what you've made is not nearly as glorious as what you've thrown away.
-- Carolyn Parkhurst -
And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made.
-- Carrie Jacobs-Bond -
Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows...it knows we can never reach it.
-- Carrie Jones -
I love raising animals. I look at animals as more perfect human beings. I can relate to an animal.
-- Carroll Shelby -
You don’t have to be perfect to be pretty.
-- Carson Kressley -
There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.
-- Cary Elwes -
We are only syllables of the perfect Word.
-- Caryll Houselander -
My name is Catherine Elizabeth Deeley and I am a huge Mulberry fan . . . Almost an addict! Bags, shoes, knitwear, bikinis, whatever Emma Hill designs, I normally want in copious amounts! This is an easy, breezy, Grace Kelly in High Society piece. A timeless dress, just perfect!
-- Cat Deeley -
It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.
-- Cat Osterman -
I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.
-- Cat Stevens -
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
-- Cate Blanchett -
In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever after. Cal was my person. I couldn't imagine anyone more perfect. Yet what kind of sick fairy tale would it be if he was the one made exactly right for me and I wasn't right for him?
-- Cate Tiernan -
Then what's the point of trying if you can't even win?" "You win in lots of different ways," Asher said. "Lots of little wins. The point of this life is not to be good all the time. It's to be as good as you can. No one is perfect. No one does it right all the time. That's not what life is.
-- Cate Tiernan -
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.
-- Catharine Beecher -
Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman's but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be but one rule of moral excellence for beings made of the same materials, organized after the same manner, and subjected to similar laws of Nature, we must either agree with Mr. Pope, or we must reverse the proposition, and say, that a perfect man is a woman formed after a coarser mold.
-- Catharine Macaulay -
And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?
-- Catherine Fisher -
Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.
-- Catherine Keener -
Living in the middle of beautiy like this, we've no call to have puny ideas about God. Why do you suppose His world is so fancy-fine, so full of wonderment if He doesn't want everything to be good and perfect and right and healthy? But we can spoil His good work. When we mess things up, then we shouldn't blame Him and try to make ourselves feel better by contending that it's what He wanted.
-- Catherine Marshall -
I have unshakeable faith in the perfect outcome of every situation in my life, for God is in absolute control.
-- Catherine Ponder
