Perfect Quotes

Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.

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

I am far from perfect, but I have something else. I heard that people in the industry are longing for more personality and diversity. Perhaps I am more a 'character' than a model.

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.

You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.

Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.

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

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.

Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.

There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.

My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.

I know I'm not perfect.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Yoga is the perfect way to de-stress and work out at the same time.

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish.

I think UNC and Lorrie Fair is a perfect match.

Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.

I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.

I see so many people in the gym just slinging weight around. You can accomplish more if you squeeze the reps out in perfect form, instead of going big and trying to kill it every time.

As a coach, they would love to sit there and say, 'It's going to be five steps, you're going to hitch up into a perfect pocket, you're going to look at number one - no; you're going to go to number two - no.' It doesn't work that way.

I'm not perfect.

Every day is not perfect.

We're all made to make mistakes; nobody's perfect.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

My favorite holiday spot has to be New York, on the St. Lawrence River. Without a doubt that area there is perfect for me. Very, very spacious. It's nice.

In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique.

'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.

My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I'm born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don't speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

I was being flirted with for 'Modern Family,' which my wife still hasn't let me live down, but it's one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn't be any more perfect. It wouldn't have been right for me, and I wouldn't have been right for it.

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one.

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force.

Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.

I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.

I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

I'm done with trying to be perfect. A perfect body belongs to somebody else - and it's not me.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outside and there's pretty much no outdoor activity to be done. It kind of sets the mood.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

You know, it's going to be a really long tour, and well, I guess I'll see what happens with A Perfect Circle, 'cause they do other projects too, and I don't know. I hope I can always do a lot of different things, do 'em well.

'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.

I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function.