Better Than Perfect Simone Elkeles Quotes

#1. Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.

Stephanie S. Tolan

#2. No just man suffices unto himself for the winning of justification. The divine mercy must always hold out a hand to his footsteps as they falter and almost stumble, and this is so because the weakness of his free will may cause him to lose balance, and if he falls he may perish forever.

John Cassian

#3. She's sweet but too apocalyptic. You try kissing someone good-night who's just told you for the umpteenth time that the world's experiencing its last disgusting paroxysm before Rapture.

George Saunders

#4. Beauty is hardly a virtue, for the disease of insecurity lurks not too far behind its veneer.

Gasmaskman

#5. If your body goes in search of a relationship, we call this sexuality. If your mind goes in search of relationships, we call this companionship. If your emotion goes in search of relationships, we call this love. If your energies go in search of relationship, we call this yoga.

Jaggi Vasudev

#6. Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

John C. Maxwell

#7. There's something depraved about screwing a woman who doesn't give a fuck about it. It heats your blood ... " And then, after a moment's meditation - "Can you imagine what she'd be like if she had any feelings?

Henry Miller

#8. You have all the influence you choose to have.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#9. The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.

Jon Meacham

#10. No one appreciated Jem properly, anyway. All they see is his disease. He's beautiful, and you don't have to look that closely to see it. You just have to look.

Abria Mattina

#11. The gear teeth of his mind, the cogs of the brain's machinery that propelled his thoughts, were grinding to a halt, too long forced to fight against the friction of agony without the aid of hope, the lubricant for the soul.

Dan Groat

#12. I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men.

Diamanda Galas

#13. I don't like movies that are morally simple.

Paul Mazursky

#14. I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

Rudy Rucker