Perfect Quotes

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.

Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect.

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

I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect.

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.

I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.

We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

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.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else.

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.

Disco B still rolls with me now. He's still doing his thing. He does clubs in different places. He was very instrumental in helping me perfect my craft.

I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice.

Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.

You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline.

If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.