Perfect Things Quotes

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  There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Song: Anthem

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• I think there's so much feeling among young girls where they feel like they have to be this perfect thing - and they don't. Perfect people don't exist. Sometimes people need to be told it.

  Niall Horan

  Girl, Thinking, People

  "A Few Questions For One Direction". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. December 9, 2012.

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• The perfect thing for me is to be on something I love, where I'm doing it and have enough money not to be poor, and I'm allowed to go on vacation.

  Ben Schwartz

  Vacation, Perfect, Goes On

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.

  Fritz Weaver

  Perfect, Age, Use

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• A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, A woman's function plainly is... to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Art, Women, Mean

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1864). “Poems”, p.353

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• All perfect things are saddening in effect. The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes, The matchless tinting on the royal rose Whose velvet leaf by no least flaw is flecked. Love's supreme moment, when the soul unchecked Soars high as heaven, and its best rapture knows, These hold a deeper pathos than our woes, Since they leave nothing better to expect.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Autumn, Clothes, Perfection

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.658, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I spend all day thinking of shopping. I love the thrill of finding that wonderful, perfect thing, the feeling of your heart racing because it's so right.

  Mindy Grossman

  Heart, Thinking, Shopping

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• People ask me, 'Is 3D a good medium for horror movies?' I think it's the perfect thing for horror movies because it really puts you into it.

  Tania Raymonde

  Thinking, People, Perfect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hunting is the last perfect thing.

  Ted Nugent

  Hunting, Perfect, Lasts

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• It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Perfect, Every Man

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Real, Perfect, Want

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• The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive.

  Jan Tschichold

  Book, Perfect, Designer

  Jan Tschichold, Robert Bringhurst, Hajo Hadeler (1991). “The form of the book: essays on the morality of good design”, Hartley & Marks Publishers

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• I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

  Damien Hirst

  Suicide, Thinking, Perfect

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• This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we have, But by what kept us from that perfect thing.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Perfect, Joy, Ifs

  Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Life's Tragedy”

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• The church is not a place where perfect people gather to say perfect things, or have perfect thoughts, or have perfect feelings. The Church is a place where imperfect people gather to provide encouragement, support, and service to each other as we press on in our journey to return to our Heavenly Father.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Encouragement, Father, Journey

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• Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.

  Leonard Cohen

  Beach, Morning, Perfect

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.76, Vintage

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• A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Home, Writing, Son

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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• I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect thing ain't got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. (Listen to him!) Now see a thing that ain't perfect, it grows like a weed. Yeah, like a weed! A thing that ain't perfect gets hand clapping, smiles, takes the wire an easy winner. But the world ain't set up right if you perfect. You lible to run right into a brick wall. Looks like suicide. All the weeds say, looka there, it suicide!

  Harry Crews

  Suicide, Running, Weed

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• The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. Like a tie at a tag sale, some perfect thing in a crate of nothing, you were just there, uninvited, and now suddenly the party was over and you were all I wanted. I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.

  Daniel Handler

  Party, Heart, Ties

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• You're trying to play someone [Edward Cullen] who's seen by a lot of people as being this perfect thing, but what is that? That doesn't really mean anything. You're trying to play an archetype on one hand and then a character on the other, so I felt insanely frustrated right up until the last shot, and then it ended.

  Robert Pattinson

  Character, Mean, Hands

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

  Alice Munro

  Perfect, Poet

  Alice Munro (2012). “Dear Life”, p.253, Random House

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• To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and turns of underground cable. An all-too-perfect thing. Sometimes the lines get crossed. Or you get a wrong number. But that's nobody's fault. It'll always be like that, so long as we exist in this physical form. As a matter of principle.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Wrong Number, Ideas

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• When I kicked in the first TV – a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels – it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.

  Adam Rapp

  Perfection, Long, Inspire

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• Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

  Ruth Rendell

  Real, Names, Perfect

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• The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Sight, Perfect, Suffering

  Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”

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