Imperfect Quotes

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.