Quotes About Perfection

They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.

If God made me a princess, why didn't he take a little more time and make my hair so it wouldn't snarl?

Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.

Only God gets things right the first time.

I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.

Time can but make her beauty over again.

There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.

I value very much the time before the show, when there is nothing else but to concentrate on the show, and it's just purely design.

I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.

Originally, each human being is a complete and perfect existence. At the same time, we are each living within the one great, large-scale perfection.

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Perfect grammar--persistent, continuous, sustained--is the fourth dimension, so to speak: many have sought it, but none has found it.

In both instances [a car coming out of the Himalayas and tobogganning] the sensation was pleasurable--intensely so; it was a sudden and immense exaltation, a mixed ecstasy of deadly fright and unimaginable joy. I believe that this combination makes the perfection of human delight.

Covek je stvorenje nacinjeno na kraju radne nedelje kad se Bog umorio. I cemu je trebalo celi ovaj globus stvarati u zurbi, za sest dana. Da se potrosilo malo vise vremena, svet se ne bi trebalo toliko popravljati i poboljsavati. Slicno se desava kad na brzinu sklepas kucu, pa u zurbi zaboravis WC, ili spremiste za metle, i to onda moras naknadno dograditi, bez obzira koliko te to kostalo novaca ili zivaca.

No one in the world speaks blemishless grammar; no one has ever written it--NO one, either in the world or out of it (taking the Scriptures for evidence on the latter point); therefore it would not be fair to exact grammatical perfection from the peoples of the Valley; but they and all other peoples may justly be required to refrain from KNOWINGLY and PURPOSELY debauching their grammar.

The reader must not imagine that he is to find in it wisdom, brilliancy, fertility of invention, ingenuity of construction, excellence of form, purity of style, perfection of imagery, truth to nature, clearness of statement, humanly possible situations, humanly possible people, fluent narrative, connected sequence of events

It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them

Something I'd like to be perfect at? ... Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd want to be perfect at loving you.

The dangers merged into one. Powder and smoke and the gusty flames. The damaged people. Like the rest of the men in the unit, Hans would need to perfect the act of forgetting.

Like the rest of the men in the unit, Hans would need to perfect the art of forgetting.

An expert is a man who doesn't make the slightest error on the road to the Grand Illusion.

he is constantly reminding me that real magic doesn't come from achieving the perfect appearance, from being Cinderella at the ball with both glass slippers and a killer hairstyle. The real magic is in the pumpkin, in the mice, in the moonlight; not beyond ordinary life, but within it.