Perfect Quotes

A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

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

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women.

Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.

But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect.

Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.

Now, I do think when we move into 2012 and '13 when, presumably, the economy is on firmer ground, I would allow the tax rates for upper-income individuals to revert back to where they were before the cuts in the 1990s. I think at that point it makes perfect sense.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate.

Each job I had wasn't necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how you really have to take certain things from each job and learn from that and then move on to something you really want to do.

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.

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.

When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

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

So they talk about heaven, and I don't know what is waiting for me up there. But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. Nothing. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.