Perfect Quotes

In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.'

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.

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.

I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.

Nature is perfect.

There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable enough Afghanistan, able to look after its own security so we can leave without the fear of it imploding... But let's be clear - it's not going to be perfect.

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

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

It's a dog eat dog world, and Mr. Perfect is a Milk Bone.

I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

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.

When I turned about 18 or 19, I was really ready to, like, stop being - stop being seen in this, like, perfect light.

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

No matter what the situation, winning takes care of a lot of stuff. Things are never perfect, even when you win. But it does make for a lot better environment, for sure.

I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.

Shooting this show is pretty intense. You lose your life. But I have no life, so it's perfect!

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years.

I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.