The Perfect Quotes

#1. Because the perfect moment can never be improved, and should be remembered, cherished, just the way it was. Like every moment I spend in your arms.

J.D. Tyler

#2. Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.

Aimee Mann

#3. I came to understand that I'm never going to be the perfect mother, but I'm going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life.

Shakira

#4. I decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the perfect stuff around.

St. Lucia

#5. Puerto Rico is the perfect meeting place between Spain, the country I come from, and America, the country where I now belong. The meeting point of two worlds where magic can happen.

Jose Andres

#6. Artificial over-stimulation seemed like the perfect way to stifle a generation of young people who wanted more and more from a world where less and less was available. Whether the victims were men or women, arousal addiction seemed to have become the new normal.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. The inbox is the perfect delivery system of other people's priorities.

Chris Brogan

#8. Weekends are sacred for me. They're the perfect time to relax and spend time with family and friends.

Marcus Samuelsson

#9. Oneness is the perfect expansion
Of our inner reality.
Let our hearts oneness only increase
To make us feel
That we belong to a universal world ? family,
And this world ? family
Is a fulfilled Dream of God.

Sri Chinmoy

#10. Revenge is the capitalism of the poor: conserve the original wound, defer immediate gratification, fatten the first insult with new insults, invest and reinvest spite, and ke waiting for the perfect moment to strike back.

Aravind Adiga

#11. The notion of the perfect time is more than myth. It's the ultimate self-delusion.

Gina Greenlee

#12. Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

Karl Lagerfeld

#13. Sometimes the hardest thing about committing the perfect crime can be keeping your genius to yourself.

Sarah Lacy

#14. The thing about the truth was that it sometimes tore apart the perfect world we forced ourselves into believing existed.

Nicole Sobon

#15. Fashion is about so much more than just a pretty pair of pumps or the perfect hemline. For so many people across the country, it is a calling, it is a career, and it's a way they feed their families.

Michelle Obama

#16. I think people get a sense of possibility when they're on a plane, even romantic possibility, wondering if the perfect person is going to sit down next to them or something.

Walter Kirn

#17. The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.

Erica Jong

#18. Once you reject fear, you will become the perfect candidate to receive and reflect Truth.

Suzy Kassem

#19. The thing is I'm a great believer in the perfect moment. They don't come around that often.

Sarah Dessen

#20. The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'

Hedi Slimane

#21. A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa.

Fran Lebowitz

#22. I don't think I'll ever meet the perfect woman. I might have to get me one of them mail order women. You can do that: you send away to the Philippines, and they send you a wife. The only thing is, once you're on their mailing list, they keep sending you a relative a month whether you want it or not.

Adam Ferrara

#23. We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect looking. Frankly, the stuff left to rot in the storeroom is more beautiful to me than the perfect carrot. I'm a gnarly carrot kind of guy.

Mario Batali

#24. At its core, all engineering comes down to making tradeoffs between the perfect and the workable.

Katie Hafner

#25. The perfect human falls.

Jorgen Leth

#26. A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.

Vladimir Lenin

#27. The perfect human being is uninteresting. - Joseph Campbell

Laura Greenwald

#28. Cooking is so popular today because it's the perfect mix of food and fun.

Emeril Lagasse

#29. Melissa was still deep in conversation with Toby. For no good reason, they were arguing about the very important art of making the perfect cup of tea.

Kat Green

#30. It is the woman who sheaths her claws and waits for the perfect opportunity who ends up with the cream from the top of the pail.

Vivienne Lorret

#31. Some people tell me that they like what I do, which is great, of course. The perfect irony and truth is that I need them much more than they need me.

Henry Rollins

#32. To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art.

Walt Whitman

#33. This, then, is the freedom for which Christ has set us free: to have the law of Christ engraved on our hearts. His way is the perfect law, which is the law of liberty (James 1:25).

R. R. Reno

#34. By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

Mark Twain

#35. We're the perfect complement to each other. I help him stay grounded and he helps me fly.

K. Webster

#36. I come home to an empty house and fill the sink with water. The pigeons above the window are clucking. I let the dishes slip under the bubbles and I close my eyes. I listen to the perfect, whole, round sounds of glass against porcelain under water.

Eula Biss

#37. I don't think there is a perfect athlete. But if I had to come close to picking someone who demonstrates all the traits that I feel an athlete should have, I would say the perfect athlete would be Tiger Woods. He has the ability, he's humble and he's very good at what he does.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#38. I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything.

Regina Spektor

#39. Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings

David Sedaris

#40. I hope to find the perfect band as well, I really do, and I'm working very hard to find that band.

Vinnie Vincent

#41. When I was young, Tchaikovsky was ruined for me by conductors who made it slick and treacly. Hearing Valery Gergiev conduct Tchaikovsky has been a revelation - he brings out all its raw passion. And Gergiev with the super-virtuoso LSO - well, it's just the perfect combination.

Charles Hazlewood

#42. Conventional lives are the perfect refuge if you are a terrible artist.

Kevin Wilson

#43. The supreme artist lives as closely as possible to replicating the perfect dream, with life unfolding in a manner that a person could never conceive or direct.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#44. Bud Light ... the perfect beer for marketers about to lose their job.

Jeff Barrett

#45. The Hope, Love & Healing necklace is the perfect embodiment of what we are trying to bring to Haiti through safe and sustainable housing, sanitation solutions, and water filtration devices.

Patricia Arquette

#46. Beauty through my senses stole;
I yielded myself to the perfect whole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#47. Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it.

Marty Rubin

#48. I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.

Lettie Prell

#49. I relax and enjoy life. I know that whatever I need to know is revealed to me in the perfect time and space sequence.

Louise Hay

#50. The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

Socrates

#51. To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

Robert Breault

#52. Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

William Davenant

#53. I always thought Camilla was the perfect love match with Charles.

Princess Diana

#54. When love comes, it comes without effort like the perfect weather.

Helen Yglesias

#55. I think every girl has a little bit of rebellion inside. It's always fun to not follow every trend and not be the perfect good girl. It's edgy to be a little rebellious.

Behati Prinsloo

#56. 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

#57. God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form ... The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

C.S. Lewis

#58. We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.

Hanna Rosin

#59. Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant.

Orison Swett Marden

#60. I ate three skittles at a time. One skittle didn't provide enough flavor. Two was a tease of sugar, yet four skittles in one bite drowned the senses. Therefore, the exact number of three served as the perfect harmony of candy goodness.

Kenya Wright

#61. Chihuahuas are the perfect pet if you don't have a person in your life who screams and shits their pants every time there's a noise.

Dana Gould

#62. When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

Mario Van Peebles

#63. The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.

Ivan Illich

#64. The realization of the perfect riposte three hours after the argument: hindser, stairwit, retrotort, afterism.

Steven Pinker

#65. The thing about 'Hold Back The River' that I like is that it's a good starting place, and it was the perfect first single.

James Bay

#66. You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in perfect submission. And the god of Eros will flow through you, as Lawrence says, in the 'perfect obliteration of blood consciousness.

Joyce Carol Oates

#67. nothing is safer
than the sound of you
reading out loud to me

-the perfect date

Rupi Kaur

#68. You can't be the perfect member of Congress and the perfect mother 100 percent of the time. And probably, you'd be a pretty annoying person if you were.

Linda Sanchez

#69. No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

Saint Patrick

#70. This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

Tupac Shakur

#71. My parents ingrained in me early on that the perfect score is always something to strive for. I want to win and I want to succeed no matter what.

Andrea Jung

#72. And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.

Blanche Wiesen Cook

#73. STORIES" it should not be the perfect,not be untold,not be romedy.. it should be the lesson to teach the human, whats the life is??

Alisha

#74. She'd be the perfect choice."
Jake snapped his head around to find Charli no smiling. "Who?"
"Annie."
"Are you kidding me?" Jake barked out a laugh. "We'd tear each other's throat out."
"Or each other's clothes off. Which sounds like a much better solution to me.

Candis Terry

#75. I believe there are two kinds of people in this world. The ones who do everything right, expecting the perfect outcome every time, and those who know better.

Faith Sullivan

#76. When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#77. Unconsciously, I had prepared the perfect trap in which to catch and hold my soul.

Dirk Benedict

#78. Many of us, if pressed, would admit that we'd prefer a cash gift to another pair of pajamas or bestselling novel. But giving the green can make even the best of us uncomfortable - the etiquette is confusing, and those who relish picking out the perfect something can miss some of the fun.

Jean Chatzky

#79. One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

Ken Thompson

#80. I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.

David Cameron

#81. So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

Plutarch

#82. [Reagan] was the best president in this era, as he had the perfect temperament for the job.

Dan Patrick

#83. [Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#84. I started out looking for the perfect love story, but what I found instead was something even more beautiful - a messy love, an imperfect love, a human love. In this time of uncertainty, can I continue to love, even if it breaks my heart?

Velcrow Ripper

#85. The little boy inside me was screaming 'Manchester United'. United breathes football ... the perfect match for me.

Robin Van Persie

#86. According to a new report, since he's been governor, Chris Christie has spent $82,000 at a concession stand at MetLife Stadium. Now, I know it seems like the perfect story for a Chris Christie joke but I'm actually on a Chris Christie joke diet. So nothing for me, thanks.

Jimmy Fallon

#87. So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.

Bayard Taylor

#88. The greatest saints, those richest in grace and virtue will be the most assiduous in praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking up to her as the perfect model to imitate and as a powerful helper to assist them.

Louis De Montfort

#89. The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today

Samuel Johnson

#90. I've got the perfect dress. It's going to knock your socks off."
Marcus wasn't sure if that was good or bad, but he couldn't wait to find out.

Deborah Blake

#91. West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

Melanie Fiona

#92. Your structure and format may not be perfect, and you may not have picked the perfect franchise, but if I pick up a script, and the characters are real, whole, complicated and come from a place of somebody who really is feeling it, that's what people remember.

Betsy Beers

#93. I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.

Kesha

#94. For Dad, the perfect Father's Day would be one in which he didn't even realize that it was Father's Day, because nobody was making him appreciate gifts he didn't want, or read greeting cards filled with lame Father's Day poetry.

Dave Barry

#95. The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.

John Tyler

#96. The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

Lemony Snicket

#97. I always said that if I have the perfect club then I should play the perfect game.

Arnold Palmer

#98. The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.

Fritz Weaver

#99. When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams.

Tim Walker

#100. This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.

Grantland Rice