Perfect On Paper Quotes

#1. Call me when you grow up and decide you can handle a real relationship instead of some perfect-on-paper, passionless dead-zone." He

Maggie Kelley

#2. My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.

Cormac McCarthy

#3. If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.

Gertrude Stein

#4. My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

Anton Du Beke

#5. 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

#6. Why the desire for death.
A clean paper or pure white wall.
One false line, a scratch, a mistake.
Unerasable. So obscureby
adding million other tracings,
blend it, cover over.
But the original scratch remains,
written in gold blood, shining.
Desire for a Perfect Life.

Jim Morrison

#7. You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of Picasso. You don't claim equality with Einstein because you can write 'H20.' And you don't boast about your goodness in the presence of the Perfect.

Max Lucado

#8. TRUST is like a paper once it's crumpled it can't be PERFECT again.

Auliq Ice

#9. Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#10. A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child's kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. "Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us." We move closer, and when I reached for it, I find ... a perfect paper airplane.

Ellen Hopkins

#11. You can flatten the paper and try and make it as straight as you want, but it will never be perfect again.

Auliq Ice

#12. More than anything, I wanted to help her write new words, on perfectly crisp, untouched paper, and to come up with a flawless title, for the perfect story.

Rachel Brookes

#13. Al was standing a bare three feet away, his mood almost jovial as he took the paper and it vanished in a wash of black sparkles.
"Thank you, Rachel," he said, carefully reaching for my hand as Trent stiffened.
"Welcome back, my itchy witch.

Kim Harrison

#14. On paper it's perfect.
But the thing about paper is: It burns.

Cat Patrick

#15. To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values, a system of very low grade performance to a system of higher, though not perfect performance.

William E. Rees

#16. Some people can seem perfect ... everything about them can, on paper, be just right.
Until you get to know them. Really know them.
Then you find out, in the end, while they might be perfect to every one else, they just aren't right for you.

Meg Cabot

#17. I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

Laura Marling

#18. These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

P. J. O'Rourke

#19. Whatever emotional state you're in while you're parenting conveys more to your child than the content of what you're doing with them, no matter how perfect your intervention looks "on paper." In other words, to paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, "your emotional state is the message.

Michael Y. Simon