Perfectioning Quotes & Sayings

The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar. — Gabriel Ba

Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed. — Terry Zwigoff

We can't be useful to ourselves unless we're useful to others ... Anyone concerned only by his own well-being will suffer eventually. Anyone concerned with the well-being of others takes care of himself without even thinking about it. Even if we decide to remain selfish. let us be intelligently selfish - let us help others. — Dalai Lama

If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre
the poems, the poems!
in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco. — Sarah Vowell

You know the rule of 72, divide the number into 72, any number you want, and that's how long it will take your money to double. — John C. Bogle

Okay," I said. "Okay," he said. — John Green

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong. — Hermann Weyl

We only see what's close to us, but if we allow ourselves to simply feel, and not see, we can understand so much more. — Jolene Perry

We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is an imperfection in the organization of spiritual life as rudimentary as the communal existence of protozoa in colonies. — Marcel Proust

My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive. — Tyler, The Creator

You dole out these stolen little pieces for yourself. You've been doing it for so long that you not only have no idea what you need, you have no idea what anyone else might need, either. No one is all or nothing. Grown-ups don't need someone to be all or nothing. — Mary Ann Rivers

Mrs. Grant glanced at her
husband. "She's always so fidgety.
Like a canary." She narrowed her
eyes at me. "I hate canaries."
I squeaked again. But not like a
canary. I hoped. — A&E Kirk