Top 100 A Perfect Quotes
#1. There is no "one" way to be a perfect leader, but there are a million ways to be a good one.
Mark W. Boyer
#2. There's no such thing as a perfect person in this world.
Gosho Aoyama
#4. You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.
Gore Vidal
#5. The author observes of the Inklings, "they make a perfect compass rose of faith: talking the Catholic, Lewis the "mere Christian," Williams the Anglican, Barfield the esotericist.
Philip Zaleski
#6. Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be like if it were a perfect world. Only god knows. And he is dead.
David Wojnarowicz
#7. Does Zeus have a perfect tan? Can he play the ukulele? I think not!
Rick Riordan
#8. The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath.
David Levithan
#9. I have a perfect body, it's in my trunk.
T-shirt
Darynda Jones
#10. She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her charmed heart She sleeps: on either hand upswells The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest: She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells A perfect form in perfect rest.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#11. I believe that a perfect house is like a perfect person; no one really wants to be around them and everyone secretly hates them. Be the weird person. Be the interesting person, the person that sometimes says inappropriate things or laughs too loud at jokes, and have your home reflect who you are.
Emily Henderson
#12. The best thing to do against life was to fold the paper so that it made a perfect
square, crisp, thick, impervious even to life.
Virginia Woolf
#13. The idea of letting a recording be a moment in time appealed to me. With digital recording, it's easy to create a perfect text of whatever song you have.
David Longstreth
#14. The book. The book ... think about a book. What a perfect invention. The best and most important ever.
Jann Arden
#15. The way we got Phil Collins for 'Tarzan' was that we heard around the studio that he was looking for a Disney project, and we got him. It seemed like a perfect match. Phil is a great musician.
Kevin Lima
#16. (...)no one can take the place of a perfect mother who gives you the world as you know it and makes you believe that it is yours to take.
Tristan Wood
#17. A cult classic ... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic imaginations.
Jim Jarmusch
#18. O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,
The poets labouring all their days
To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
Are overthrown by a woman's gaze ...
William Butler Yeats
#19. To make it a perfect season,
love everyone without reason.
Debasish Mridha
#20. Our lips moved together perfectly. A perfect match. Because we had skills like that.
Nyrae Dawn
#21. I figured out something, Lorie," he said. "I figured out why you and me get along so well. You know more than you say and I say more than I know. That means we're a perfect match, as long as we don't hang around one another more than an hour at a stretch.
Larry McMurtry
#22. If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.
Henry Rollins
#23. The Red Cow was very respectable, she always behaved like a perfect lady and she knew What was What.
P.L. Travers
#24. A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.
Walter Savage Landor
#25. As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption.
Catherine Helen Spence
#26. For we human beings are used to inappropriate things; we are accustomed to the clatter of the incongruous; it is a tune to which we can go to sleep. If one appropriate thing happens, it wakes us up like the pang of a perfect chord.
G.K. Chesterton
#27. There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there.
Mary Karr
#28. Your life is a perfect reflection of your mental and emotional habits. Building a better life is as simple as building better habits.
Indigo Ocean
#29. The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.
Simon Greenleaf
#30. I'm a believer that people need to understand that filmmaking is not a perfect process for anybody. It is a process in which you find the film and the film finds you. And that is every film.
Jason Reitman
#31. Just a perfect day, problems all left alone.
Lou Reed
#32. It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.
Karl Weierstrass
#33. There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
Kabir Bedi
#34. Your life is perfect, it is a perfect plan; it is a spontaneous miracle. It is both every moment.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#35. But I love you,' Caleb says, his voice breaking, because in a perfect world, this should be all the excuse one needs.
Jodi Picoult
#36. It is a perfect deception when you can lie to yourself and believe it. You cannot love two people the same. One will always fall by the shadows ... even if that one is you.
Michelle Horst
#37. The rule for J.O.Y is Jesus, Others and You. You can't have a perfect joy if all you think about is about how to groom your life!
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. I stood there, shocked. I'd never hugged a perfect stranger before, but maybe this was how people in California did things.
Penelope King
#39. I'd like to have a perfect sense of direction. I could get lost with a GPS strapped to my arm.
Lisa Graff
#40. Those small spaces of time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, when both and neither surround you.
Diana Gabaldon
#41. [London is] one of the best cities in the world. There is just so much culture there and so much history and so much diversity. It's just a perfect place to grow up. I studied at the Guildhall every Saturday so I'd always be in town every weekend doing that. I was kind of a city boy really.
Douglas Booth
#42. Marriage equals work. It doesnt just happen. There will never be anyone whom we can call a perfect match.
Ika Natassa
#43. The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just accelerate everybody's lives. So, for me, the Internet was the greatest invention of mankind so far.
Kim Dotcom
#44. In a simple and a peaceful cottage with a beautiful view, you will not be dreaming about the palaces or the heaven, because you already have a perfect thing!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. The mainstream media perpetuates the notion that women should focus entirely on a static image of a perfect body as the end goal. There are no messages about the process, the active body, how it makes us feel in that moment.
Anna Kessel
#46. A perfect weekend in London has to start on Friday night, by going to the theatre, the Donmar or the National. It's a cliche for an actor, but I enjoy going as much as possible.
Helen McCrory
#47. All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.
Giordano Bruno
#48. In a perfect world, I only act when I really want to. I don't do most of the stuff that is out there, but it's a joy and a pleasure to do anything that promotes this higher power - this light, if you will. I just think there aren't enough projects in the world that do that.
Olivia Hussey
#49. I very specifically told you to stay away from Ned Blydon."
"I chose not to follow your advice. Ned is a very nice person. Handsome, personable - a perfect escort."
"That is precisely why I wanted you to keep him at arm's length.
Julia Quinn
#50. Doctors and trainers often see perfectly developed bodies, but nobody can even begin to imagine what a perfect *mind* would be like; that is where the whole range of progress and growth must take place.
Hugh Nibley
#51. Perfection: a collection of a variety of pieces that, when viewed and felt individually, are difficult and confusing; but when brought together as one, create a perfect picture. Symphony, harmony, serenity.
C. JoyBell C.
#52. This is a good way to do it (saying goodbye to Victoria Park). What a perfect way to end the Millennium. The last football home and away match of the Millennium will be at Victoria Park, and in the new Millennium we'll have fantastic facilities, a new approach, a new attitude,
Eddie McGuire
#53. A perfect word left behind in an imperfect World who does not know what it is capable of
Rosemarie Yusen
#54. Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.
Rene Angelil
#55. Contentedly adrift in the cosmos. That is a perfect description of a non-epiphany, that rarest of moments, when God Almighty lets go of the scruff of your neck and lets you be human for a little while. How long did the feeling last?
Kurt Vonnegut
#56. The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#57. At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith in humanity as it is to be.
Lionel Trilling
#58. In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.
Neal Shusterman
#59. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. Ex-cons always say, "You never know what makes the wheels go round until you've done time in the joint." This is even more true of psychiatric hospitals. It is a perfect mass hypostatization of society, the organization of the Social Lie.
Kenneth Rexroth
#61. Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.
Frederick Soddy
#62. I had great success with Ivan Lendl. Was he a perfect coach? No. Was he a very good coach? Yeah. He had some very strong qualities and some things that weren't so good.
Andy Murray
#63. Bravo for faking it yet again, Ethan. You're a perfect counterfeit copy of someone I thought I loved.
Leisa Rayven
#64. Apapa, Falyn, she scolded with a perfect Greek accent.
Jamie McGuire
#65. I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.
Charlie Munger
#66. The relationship between a perfect cup of coffee and a writer is just like the couple who always standby and feel proud of being committed to each other.
Himmilicious
#67. Don't wait for a perfect person to love. Love a person and make him or her perfect with your power of love.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.
James G. Stavridis
#69.
"You might have figured out she has a thing for guys in uniform."
"A perfect match." He grinned. "Garcia has a thing for girls with a thing.
Victoria Vane
#70. Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days.
Che Guevara
#71. There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and improve his means of expression; he is always pursuing facts and words.
Peter Newmark
#72. I live in New York, and when you're older and widowed, it's a perfect place because you just don't feel lonely there, and, luckily, I like my own company, too.
Blythe Danner
#73. I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.
Laura Leighton
#74. Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have. In this respect, as in many others, it's like democracy. Science by itself cannot advocate courses of human action, but it can certainly illuminate the possible consequences of alternative courses of action.
Carl Sagan
#75. No decoration
can compare in loveliness;
a perfect flower
Frances Watts
#76. Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too.
Anthony Bourdain
#77. When I remember the promises of God, I tap into the power of God. God's promises are always a perfect match for our problems. And our problem instigator the Devil - the lion - is no match for God's promises.
Lysa TerKeurst
#78. To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it's unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true.
David Wells
#79. I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.
Sarah MacLean
#80. Dirty talk is an art. Do it too often, it becomes routine. Never do it, and you're missing something. Simon did it just right. He was like a perfect bowl of smutty porridge: just right.
Alice Clayton
#81. You are a foreigner in an actual world, a human co-worker, a truth, a divine word, and a perfect mistake.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#82. Success - or at least the true enjoyment of it - is a perfect marriage between talent, and your courage and ability to market that talent.
Gregor Collins
#83. Billy: Dad, do you have a perfect visual memory? Dad: Yes son, pretty much. Why do you ask? Billy: I just broke your shaving mirror!
Various
#84. Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.
Andre Maurois
#85. I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.
Philip Yancey
#86. Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.
E. M. Forster
#87. Tonight was a perfect illustration of why Cinderella and the Prince get married twenty-four hours after they meet. Because when you're living with your stepmother, there is no happily ever after.
Melissa Kantor
#88. When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#89. A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are fighting actually with external nature, and if we are defeated, our life has to go.
Swami Vivekananda
#90. The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are not widely shared outside the Christian or theistic community is interesting but fundamentally irrelevant.
Alvin Plantinga
#91. Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Billie Jean King
#93. 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
#94. Something new, they had said. They had a perfect day for it. A day with the blue and gold good weather of anyone's primitive childhood expectations, when the new, brief memory tells itself that this is what is, and therefore was, and therefore will be. A good day to see a new place.
A.S. Byatt
#95. The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.
Walt Kelly
#96. 195. "God, enlighten the darkness of my heart and give me a right faith, a sure hope, a perfect charity, sense and knowledge, so that I may carry out your holy command.
Francis Of Assisi
#97. A perfect example of the power of prayer is when a blizzard closes the schools on the day of a big exam.
Doug Larson
#98. Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent ... When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion?
Paul Gauguin
#99. Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
Andrew Jackson
#100. I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat
Regina Spektor
