Top 100 As Perfect Quotes
#1. And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glaring eyes that grew ever grimmer, angrier, beneath the rim of his cap, flooding the outside world as perfect, vulgar hate.
Patrick Suskind
#2. He knows she isn't perfect. She knows he definitely isn't perfect. They know there's no such thing as perfect.
Gabrielle Zevin
#3. There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Haruki Murakami
#4. The moment I felt my life return was when I took a breath and said to him, No thank you. Were I as perfect as you are demanding, life would be rather boring.
Paula Heller Garland
#5. Whenever someone 'pretends' as perfect, never made a mistake, error, sin in his life, I know that he has never been in the field...
Assegid Habtewold
#6. Beauty is not always as perfect as we imagine it to be, but it can be damn close if we learn to accept the scary parts or the ugly parts.
Nick Miller
#7. I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be.
Chris Van Allsburg
#8. Tell me you aren't as perfect as you seem, Alex." "Not even close to perfect." His blue-gray eyes darkened. "Not a complete asshole either.
Toni Anderson
#9. Self-pity is the hens' besetting sin," remarked Mr. Payton. "Foolish fowl. How they came to achieve anything as perfect as the egg I do not know! I cannot fathom.
Elizabeth Enright
#10. Spiritual healing is KNOWING that the body is perfect. Mental healing is effecting a perfect body by visualizing the body as perfect.
Lester Levenson
#11. As perfect as we can make it from so far away. I wouldn't trade it, though. I'll take 3000 miles over any other man in the same room with me.
Kahlen Aymes
#12. We could hurt each other even when we weren't trying to, and that none of us was as perfect as we liked to pretend.
Meg Waite Clayton
#13. Is the human creature as perfect in function as it might be?' 'Meaningless,' replied Cabal, 'with no definition as to what that function might conceivably be. We are good communicators, passable runners, middling swimmers, and poor at flying.
Jonathan L. Howard
#14. I want people to see that I'm a real person, I overreact, I cry, I'm emotional. If I come across as perfect and in control, that wouldn't be who I really am.
Tamara Ecclestone
#15. We may not be as perfect as we used to be,' says Raffe, 'but it's all relative.'
I try to give him a dirty look, but I can't help but laugh. 'Yes, I'm laughing at you.'
Raffe pulls me closer and kisses me again. I melt into his taut body. I can't help myself. I'm not even sure I should try
Susan Ee
#16. All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.
Russell Brand
#17. It's up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible.
It's a question of will and discipline.
Karl Lagerfeld
#18. There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
Salman Rushdie
#19. Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set up in circular form, and covered with cedar bark.
William Henry Ashley
#20. In reality most people aren't as perfect as they want to seem.
Susanne Bier
#21. There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
Horace
#22. Did Beethoven create his symphonies for his glorification? I don't believe it. I believe he created them because the music in his soul demanded expression and then all he tried to do was to make them as perfect as he knew how.
W. Somerset Maugham
#23. To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
Alexander Calder
#24. But when Marie laughed, when her mouth curved in a perfect arch, when her eyes became the combined colors of hydrogen on the visible light spectrum, when the manifestation of happiness as perfect music passed her lips, then time stopped. Just
Penny Reid
#25. It's also obsessiveness. I'll spend a lot of time working on a single sentence, debating over a dash or a colon, etc. I want things to be perfect. I know nothing will ever be as perfect as I want it, and this is very sad, but sometimes I can get close.
Mary J. Miller
#26. This girl has me, every part of me. She owns it all, and I am willing to wait for every new touch, knowing that it will feel just the same, just as perfect as this one does.
She is what I will look forward to.
Ginger Scott
#27. There is no such thing as perfect. But even if there was, I would pick you over perfection any day.
Jacqueline E. Smith
#28. maybe Lucy was wrong - maybe sometimes there was such a thing as perfect moment.
Morgan Matson
#29. The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.
Joan Of Arc
#30. The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.
H.L. Mencken
#31. If you're waiting for everything to feel right and perfect, I'll save you the suspense and tell you that's never going to happen. But if you look at me and say you want to be with me and I look at you and I know I want to be with you, then that's as perfect as it will ever get.
Nicole Williams
#32. Even if I thought he as perfect for her." She turned to face him. "What were we thinking?"
"We weren't," he said. "We were in love.
Nicholas Sparks
#33. You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.
Edwin Land
#35. The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#36. The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
Arnold Bennett
#37. There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.
Rohinton Mistry
#38. I'm about as perfect as a shattered mirror,
Lily Paradis
#39. I met someone special today," I told her. "His name is Lawson Gale." She wagged her tail at me. "I dunno, Rosie, but if there's any such thing as perfect for me, he just might be it.
N.R. Walker
#40. Remember, Pia," he whispers. "Perfect is as perfect does.
Jessica Khoury
#41. We may deny the truth of our childhoods while we are living them, but we one day realize the truth of our parents as readily as we do that of Santa. Neither are as perfect as our memories would have them ...
Thomm Quackenbush
#42. If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.
Steve Wozniak
#43. We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models ... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.
Alberto Manguel
#44. I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.
Erno Rubik
#45. If only she could find someone as perfect as her father. He made every other man she'd ever met seem unworthy. Perhaps this was the reason she'd never found a suitor very appealing; she always compared him to her father.
Melanie Dickerson
#46. Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.
Thomas Merton
#47. The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.
Ernst Mach
#48. With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
Karl Lagerfeld
#49. There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that's what's most precious.
Ricky Gervais
#50. We were never perfect. There's no such thing as perfect. But it's not to late for us. We can still be good.
Pittacus Lore
#51. In looking back we remember only the triumphant consummations of each season. Failures and frustrations are forgotten; garden-memories are as perfect as garden-hopes.
Patience Strong
#52. What I've learned from sketch is you can get it as perfect as you want, and it's never going to be perfect.
Horatio Sanz
#54. It's not all 'Jane Eyre' out there. In her sweet, honorable, slightly passive-aggressive way, Jane was as perfect as a protagonist can get while remaining interesting; in fact, she's one of my favorites. But most characters are more morally ambiguous.
Susan Isaacs
#55. There's no such thing as "Perfect' time to start your own startup business. You will be waiting for the rest of your life.
Timi Nadela
#56. Don't wait for the perfect opportunity. Just take an opportunity and make it as perfect as you can.
Mark Sanborn
#57. When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about.
Thomas Keller
#58. Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#59. chief beauty about the constant supply of time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career.
Arnold Bennett
#60. There's no such thing as perfect. Chasing 'Perfect' is the shortest road to not achieving it.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#61. Cats never feel threatened. They are genetically incapable of accepting that anyone could possibly dislike anything as perfect as a cat.
Kathy Young
#62. Lexie was the leader of the bobble heads. They were a group of girls best described as perfect, plastic, fake and hollow headed, hence the name bobble heads.
Ashley Jeffery
#63. And right now he and Douglas were hiking out beyond town on another warm and marble-round day, the sky blue blown-glass reaching high, the creeks bright with mirror waters fanning over white stones. It was a day as perfect as the flame of a candle.
Ray Bradbury
#64. When we practice viewing others as perfect right now, we increase our capacity to view ourselves with more compassion, kindness, and self-love.
Anella Wetter
#65. Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.
Ariana Grande
#66. I thought we were perfect for each other."
"There's no such thing as perfect," Eli commiserated.
Rachel Higginson
#67. Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
Victor Hugo
#68. There's no such thing as a perfect piece of writing. Just as there's no such thing as perfect despair. So
Haruki Murakami
#69. I made myself a snowball As perfect as can be. I thought I'd keep it as a pet, And let it sleep with me. I made it some pajamas And a pillow for it's head. Then last night it ran away, But first - It wet the bed.
Shel Silverstein
#70. The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself.
Emmet Fox
#71. There is more beauty in someone flawed than someone who sees themselves as perfect
Brian Michael Good
#72. Not so much wonderful as perfect," she replied. "Kind of flawless. More or less magnificent. Without blemish. Rather on the ideal side." She looked at the Prince. "Am I being helpful?"
"I
William Goldman
#73. As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world. We're prideful, only showing what we deem as perfect or what we think our peers will respect.
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
#74. There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!
Albert Einstein
#75. How can i sleep when no dream could ever be as perfect as this reality?
Jade Goodmore
#76. Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n in fault;. Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.
Alexander Pope
#78. She has had a couple of lovers before, but honest to God, no one has ever felt as good, as perfect a fit, as him.
Sarah Rayner
#79. It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple ... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.
Addison Mizner
#80. Would I show my body off if I was thinner? Probably not, because my body is mine. I think I remind everyone of themselves. I'm not saying everyone is my size, but it's relatable because I'm not perfect, and I think a lot of people are portrayed as perfect, unreachable and untouchable.
Adele
#81. Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.
John Ruskin
#82. I don't think of you as perfect.
"Oh ... ok." My eyelashes blinked in rapid succession and my brain started compiling the list of
all my imperfections, "It's because of my height? My seepage of trivial facts? My granny panties-
Penny Reid
#83. There are days when I am envious of my hens:
when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure
as a single daily egg.
Barbara Kingsolver
#84. After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.
Josh Groban
#85. A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
Edward Steichen
#86. To become as perfect as a mortal being can become, we need to bring the mind, body, and spirit into total harmony ... We must add to that harmony Christ like love and righteousness.
Betty Eadie
#87. Are you insane?"
"I know. I know what you're thinking, but I had to. It was The One. And I was right! I haven't seen one since that was as perfect as this one!
Jamie McGuire
#88. Trying is something we do when we think we can't do something. Even if your doing is not as perfect as you would like, decide to do it, and you will.
Lady Nimrod of Buckmore in The Princelings and the Lost City
Jemima Pett
#89. Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.
Brene Brown
#90. 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
#91. This, Cora ... this is as perfect as two people can be
Jay Crownover
#92. View the events you consider obstacles as perfect opportunities to test your resolve and find your purpose.
Wayne Dyer
#93. My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get.
Laurie Graham
#94. I have lived long enough to realize that there is no such thing as perfect love. That's too long.
Eoin Colfer
#95. An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.
Thomas McGuane
#96. If only you'd stop thinking there's such a thing as perfect, then you'd feel a lot better about yourself.
A.S. King
#97. He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
Charles Caleb Colton
#98. remember, there's no such thing as perfect anything. You make your own future out of the chaos life hands you. Life is a giant slot machine, and honey, God only gives you so many pulls.
Miranda Liasson
#99. I can't go on to page two until I can get page one as perfect as I can make it. That might mean I will rewrite and rewrite page one 20, 30, 50, 100 times.
Dean Koontz
#100. It is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
