Quotes About Perfection

There's no such thing as a perfect piece of writing. Just as there's no such thing as perfect despair.

She's got to be a ghost. First of all, she's just too beautiful. Her features are gorgeous, but it's not only that. She's so perfect I know she can't be real. She's like a person who stepped right out of a dream. The purity of her beauty gives me a feeling close to sadness –a very natural feeling, though one that only something extraordinary could produce.

I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.

A sheet of white extends to the lone dark vertical of the elm tree in the centre ... It is too perfect, to inviolate ... The snow is graced with waves written by the wind, the elm raises crooked arms in sleeves of white.

The book was so clean and white, and the letters were so perfectly black and defenseless; it would have been like tearing the ears off a kitten.

Dana's house could have been cut from a magazine, the kind of home that tells a story, even though no one lives in it.

There are people in this world so perfect that the fact of them feels like a personal gift

There are people in this world so perfect that the fact of them seems like a personal gift.

We only really need one of a good thing

As Oscar Wilde says, thirty-five is the perfect age for a woman, so much so that many women have decided to adopt it for the rest of their lives.

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

Great touch is often written off simply as 'talent,' which is crucial, because a good swing can take a golfer only so far. I've seen thousands of fantastic swings in my day, but that doesn't guarantee anything.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

You can't criticize geometry. It's never wrong.

If the lecture is good, then everything is too smooth. That's the same in music: if the performance is too good, you really don't enjoy it, because it just goes by, and you can never penetrate into the heart of it. Sometimes a poor performance is better for enjoyment, because you can look at those things that were wrong and analyze them.

Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?

Don't get me wrong: not all camo is trendy or cute. The right camo and camo shades, though... perfection.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.

No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.

I've always thought that whether I'm writing or not, I've gotta pick the best songs, whether or not they're mine. I'm not gonna sing them just because I wrote them. I've gotta find the best songs to make the best record I can.

I had a studio visitor ask me when a piece was complete, and afterward, I realized I was kind of annoyed by the question. I wrote down to myself, 'Nothing's ever finished' as an operating value.

'Titania' is the best yacht currently afloat of its kind and size. There is very little, if anything, that anybody would go wanting for on 'Titania.'