Perfect Words Quotes

#1. Don't shoot me, Sidney, I love you.
He had shot him right through the words that still haunted him today, the most perfect words ever said to him.

James Purdy

#2. I shouted the perfect words to scare him off. It was just the delivery (and only the delivery) that made me sound like a twelve-year-old girl with pee running down her leg.
I felt dirty and stupid.

Graham Parke

#3. In me, now," she murmured, her eyes sparking with untamed heat. The three most perfect words in his language.

Savannah Stuart

#4. The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.

John Dunning

#5. Only two percent of the world's population have green eyes."
Kell said it so Gethin would turn and look at him full on. He did. Moss green. Lagoon green. A tiger's eyes. He wished he had the perfect words to describe the colour. Exotic. Exciting. Sexy.

Barbara Elsborg

#6. For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject.

James Arthur

#7. The Word of Wisdom does not promise you perfect health, but it teaches how to keep the body you were born with in the best condition and your mind alert to delicate spiritual promptings.

Boyd K. Packer

#8. Become aware of God, in whose presence you are while you pray ... Then take a formula of prayer and recite it with perfect attention both to the words you are saying and to the Person to whom you are saying them.

John Climacus

#9. An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#10. 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

#11. Always remember, actions speak louder than words. No one's perfect, but we can all strive to be better people.

Demi Lovato

#12. What intrigues me most about the human voice, is its ability to make all things transparent through its power of transformation. The voice is not just a conduit for words. For me it is like an abstract dream in which everything makes perfect sense.

Azam Ali

#13. Don't strive for perfection, just do your best. Everything in life is ever revolving to be perfect.

Ann Marie Frohoff

#14. As a kid, during the school year, my head was often buried in a textbook or Judy Blume book; the words and pictures were the perfect, barrier-free environment for me.

Marlee Matlin

#15. I guess I'm the perfect match, then, for a girl who likes to visit a cemetery." He drew out every syllable so that it sounded like a love song.
I closed my eyes, savoring those words. "A perfect match," I murmured. "My other half.

Jessica Verday

#16. Men have firm beautiful bodies with cut muscles. But the curves and gentleness of a woman's body is beyond a words measure; with their dazzling rawness it's impossible to perfect but I crave the need to depict such a fathomless beauty.

S.K. Logsdon

#17. You're just ... You're everything
His words are perfect, but the tone in his voice is not right. Wistful. Apologetic.

Jessica Park

#18. Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.

Jessica Lange

#19. I never want to leave you.
I didn't respond- not because I couldn't find the words, but because there weren't any words in the entire world that could have sounded more perfect.

Meredith T. Taylor

#20. I don't believe there's such a thing as conventional love. Love is bending. Love is breaking. Love is constantly learning about the other person until you go crazy because it will never be perfect, but there's no fault in trying. I've loved a boy who was extraordinary beyond words, in my eyes.

Amber L. Johnson

#21. Salvation isn't about sets of words. It's an attitude of the heart. The words have no power in and of themselves; it's not a formula we have to perfect in order to be accepted.

Angie Smith

#22. No matter how perfect & honest a person is, there will always be people to criticize. In other words, if everyone agrees with someone, there is something fundamentally wrong with what that individual is doing. If you are not criticized, you are not in the right track.

Abu Sufyan Ibn Harb

#23. I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

Theodore Roosevelt

#24. Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.

Barbara Kingsolver

#25. Best and dearest flower that grows, / Perfect both to see and smell; / Words can never, never tell / Half the beauty of a Rose - .

Cicely Mary Barker

#26. Confronting discomfort is giving me strength, in a world where perfect strangers can render me powerless.

Veronica Larsen

#27. You need not search for uniqueness, you are unique already. There is no way to make a thing more unique. The words "more unique" are absurd. It is just like the word "circle." Circles exist; there is no such thing as "more circular." That is absurd. A circle is always perfect, "more" is not needed.

Osho

#28. Words like "perfect," "brilliant," "amazing," "wonderful," and "great" sound like compliments when they trip off our tongues, but over time they are daggers in the soul of a developing kid and end up undercutting resilience.

Julie Lythcott-Haims

#29. You're perfect. Almost too perfect ... Sometimes I wonder if you're even real.
I close my eyes with his words, as his mouth finds my collarbone. I am real. At least, parts of who he's seen are. And this is real, what's happening between us right now.

K.A. Tucker

#30. It's strange, but when I have to speak in front of an audience, I find it more comfortable to use my far-from-perfect English than Japanese. I think this is because when I have to speak seriously about something in Japanese I'm overcome with the feeling of being swallowed up in a sea of words.

Haruki Murakami

#31. 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

#32. Twice.
Once for Adam.
Once for Warner.

Tahereh Mafi

#33. I'm sorry. I told you I'm not good with words."
Wrapping my arms around his neck, I pressed my lips to his and spoke against them, "You are perfect, Lev. Your words are honest and colored beautifully. You make me feel things I thought were lost to me. And I'm in danger of losing my heart to you.

Belle Aurora

#34. There ought to be a while separate language, she thought, for words that are truer than other words - for perfect, absolute truth. It was the purest fact of her life: she did not understand him, and she never would.

Anne Tyler

#35. Sister,
Words cannot express the love I have for you, or the hope I have for your future, but they would only fail in comparison to those God has already written for you ... He is faithful. Let Him restore you in His perfect timing and in His perfect way.

Nicole Deese

#36. I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that? ...

John Geddes

#37. I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.

Sarah Dessen

#38. What makes a great song - you don't put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.

Diane Warren

#39. The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.

Catherine The Great

#40. Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words
To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart;
Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

John Milton

#41. Lizzie had no answer for how a whore could quiver from the caress of a man, or find tears at words that were sweet. After all, hadn't she been told she was beautiful before? Perfect? Worthy of worship?

She hadn't.

Shewanda Pugh

#42. Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?

Francis Chan

#43. Paint me perfect poetry.

N'Zuri Za Austin

#44. There are no words for what I've done to us - to you. You will be my greatest masterpiece. I will build you with the strongest materials. Nothing will be rushed. Even if it takes a lifetime ... every little detail will be perfect.

Jewel E. Ann

#45. There is no perfect moment to say I love you because when you feel the urge to say the words of love then you are already in the perfect moment.

Ramona Matta

#46. I'm tugging at my hair. I'm pulling at my clothes. I'm trying to keep my cool, I know it shows. I'm staring at my feet. My cheeks are turning red. I'm searching for the words inside my head. I'm feeling nervous trying to be perfect, 'cause I know you're worth it.

Avril Lavigne

#47. Never judge anyone by their appearance, or the car they drive, or the house they live in, or even by the words they say. judge people by their actions. that's how you know whether they're bad or good. - perfect Summer

Luanne Rice

#48. The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.

Gottfried Leibniz

#49. Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.

Beatrice Warde

#50. Today is going to be a perfect, perfect day." Trina smiled and the waters of the stream continued to rush by, as if his words meant nothing.

James Dashner

#51. Art symbolizes our perfect ability in the matter of enriching the reality!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#52. Clarity! Accuracy! Think of your words as a key to fit into the lock of your meaning. Cast them with precision. That key should then be swift and perfect in achieving its aim. Well shaped talk is a release from the indefinite. It is explanation. Preparation. Nothing more.

Jane Borodale

#53. When we are transported either by Mozart or Glenn Miller, we find ourselves in the presence of the ineffable, for which all words are so inadequate that to attempt to describe it, even with effusive praise and words of perfect beauty, is to engage in blasphemy.

Dean Koontz

#54. In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!

Laozi

#55. I always craft my words to the point where I think and hope they're perfect before I ever begin sketching.

Kevin Henkes

#56. No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.

Terry Pratchett

#57. He kissed my tears away and whispered sweet words into my ears. Words that he was too afraid to say out loud. He told me I was beautiful. That I was perfect in every way. And that, unconditionally, I was his.

A. Zavarelli

#58. In my opinion, animation is best when it communicates without words, because it is the perfect medium through which to make shortcuts to meaning. When actors are not talking, just acting out, it looks kind of weird. But in animation, mime is constant, and you accept it.

Signe Baumane

#59. A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.

Walt Whitman

#60. 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

#61. Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality ... is conscious and alert ... The lower personality is a ... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature ...

E. M. Forster

#62. But more importantly, know I love you more than I can say with simple words. Poets have attempted for centuries to find the perfect combination, and I don't imagine I shall have more luck than they.

Lissa Bryan

#63. Words of encouragement, a little respect, simple gestures of kindness from a teacher promote the perfect climate for studetns to study, learn, and grow.

Donna Fargo

#64. Sometimes a perfect memory can be ruined if put to words.

Nova Ren Suma

#65. Wisdom isn't to know these words. Wisdom isn't to have ideas or philosophies - those are just thoughts. Wisdom is to be that perfect consciousness.

Frederick Lenz

#66. Every experience we have is necessary and perfect. In other words, everything is Perfect.

Bryan Kest

#67. I was surrounded by words and stories and dust-speckled light. That's a pretty perfect way to be.

Natalie Lloyd

#68. And I learned that sometimes when someone says something so devastatingly perfect, there isn't a need for a response. The words said it all.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#69. Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that is to say, perfect, unique, ubiquitous, in other words Nonexistence, ultimate and supreme.

Stanislaw Lem

#70. How would you start to write a poem? How would you put together a series of words for its first line - how would you know which words to choose? When you read a poem, every word seemed so perfect that it had to have been predestined - well, a good poem.

Ashley Hay

#71. Each interpreted the other's words in his own way, and the lived in perfect harmony, the perfect solidarity of perfect Mutual misunderstanding.

Milan Kundera

#72. You want enough to fill you up. You want more cocaine and more vodka. You want more of all of them, of men, of the things that stick out of them, egos and Marlboro reds and dirty words about banging your perfect ass.

Amanda Boyden

#73. I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.

Isadora Duncan

#74. He loops his arm over my shoulder and we watch the waves in silence. We've had so many silences between us these last few months, bitter ones, loaded ones, empty ones, and hurtful ones. This one is perfect. It says things that words can't.

Lindsey Leavitt

#75. It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

Eduardo Galeano

#76. My life is never perfect, but life is always a beautiful thing. I choose to see the beauty out of it. I choose to make it wonderful. I choose to love life and it loves me back in return. I may only have one life to live, but if I do it right, once is enough.

Diana Rose Morcilla

#77. Want to give you everything you need." You do. You are. Hopelessly romantic words died in Maddox's throat. This moment was already perfect enough. I've loved you for years.

Annabeth Albert

#78. The words of young Ted Kennedy, Jr., who lost his leg to cancer. "People are taught we should look perfect," he said. "I wondered who would ever go out with a kid with one leg.

Erma Bombeck

#79. In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.

Bertrand Russell

#80. Volatile repose. The words just kept occurring to me. It was a perfect description of me -quiet, calm, but on the edge of something vast and dark and dangerous and explosive.

Katherine Ewell

#81. Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.

Alan Brennert

#82. Have you ever looked at, say, a picture or a great building or read a paragraph in a book and felt the world suddenly expand and, in the same instant, contract and harden into a kernel of perfect purity? Do you know what I mean? Everything suddenly fits, everything's in its place.

Carol Shields

#83. Isn't it ironic that the perfect moment for
them to admit that they need you in their
life is when you finally realize that you're
well off without them.

In other words,
the devil knows when you are getting close
to heaven.

Pierre Alex Jeanty

#84. Missing someone is the reverberating echo of everything beautiful about her - her laugh, her song, her touch, her smell, the power of her words, and the constant shadow that lingers on as her perfect image in your memory.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#85. I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.

Nellie McKay

#86. Like the perfect collision of oils on a canvas.
She was a walking piece of art. Words and all.

Candace Knoebel

#87. My life is exactly what it's meant to be, and I'm okay. I'm. Okay. Those two words, yeah, they mean a lot to me. I'm not perfect, I'm not completely healed, but I'm okay. I'll take it.

Ashley Beale

#88. Bide the Wiccan Law ye must In perfect love and perfect trust Eight words the Wiccan Reed fulfill An' ye harm none, do what you will" - Unknown

Lucilla Olson

#89. Every time we speak to people, we have the opportunity to change their lives forever, if only we could find the perfect combination of words.

Kalin Ringkvist

#90. On a basic level, it's actually very simple, Ella. Dr. Hakim's words. Not one single person on this planet is perfect. Every single one of us is deeply flawed. Either we accept that fact and forgive ourselves for the mistakes we're bound to make, or we let them destroy us. But

Harper Bliss

#91. It's up to to you to perfect that gift that you've been given. Put your spirit into that song. Focus on the words that you are singing. Get into the experience that you are singing about and sing your heart out.

Stevie Wonder

#92. Her voice was perfect, custom-made for my ears. I wanted to hit the record button in my brain and save this all for later. Half of me was listening to her words, but the other half was mesmerized by the melody.

Kathy Hatfield

#93. What else was filmmmaking about if not a series of perfect and potent images strung together like the words of a poem?

Francesca Lia Block

#94. In infinite space and time everything develops, becomes more perfect and more complex, is differentiated,is to say nothing at all. Those are all words with no meaning, for in the infinite is neither complex nor simple, no forward nor backward, or better or worse.

Leo Tolstoy

#95. Because I love you!"

There it was, out in the air. Griff's eyes got wide. The words had come out angry, but Dante had meant them. He couldn't open his perfect mouth and swallow them back.

His face softened. "In love, I mean. With you. For so long.

Damon Suede

#96. You are so perfect for me" - hot words against her lips - "I'd steal you if you weren't already mine.

Nalini Singh

#97. Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.

Amit Ray

#98. Logan. Oh, Logan, that's so..." A moan caught her words and stole them away. "So lovely."
"You're lovely." He kissed her just where he knew she needed it. "Beautiful." Made a tender pass of his tongue. "Perfect.

Tessa Dare

#99. There is nothing ideal in Nature, because it was not created by some sort of ideal Almighty Being with perfect peerless craftsmanship. Nature as it is, has evolved through millions of years out of the biological drive for survival.

Abhijit Naskar

#100. One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll beproving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

Anton Chekhov