Perfectionists Book Quotes & Sayings

Hey, we had a deal. Aren't you supposed to take off your clothes now?"
"It would only be pity sex," she said, in a mock confessional. "I won't insult you like that."
"Go ahead. Insult me. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia. — John Green

He needed to taste her like he needed his next breath. — Katie Reus

A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners. — Nancy Reagan

Remembering her words, Tony, you are mine and nobody else's, he acquiesced; he'd met his match. — Aleatha Romig

The short space of threescore years can never content the imagination of man; nor can the imperfect joys of this world satisfy his heart. Man alone, of all created beings, displays a natural contempt of existence, and yet a boundless desire to exist; he scorns life, but he dreads annihilation. These different feelings incessantly urged his soul to the contemplation of a future state, and religion directs his musings thither. Religion, then, is simply another form of hope; and it is no less natural to the human heart than hope itself. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I don't know if nice people tend to grow roses, or growing roses tends to make people nice. — Roland A. Browne

Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting. — Jim Jarmusch

Inner peace comes from knowing the ultimate purpose of your life. — Debasish Mridha

Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education. — James Morcan

Well, I couldn't play an instrument. I'd just stand up front and announce the numbers. They had me sing a little, but that was a horrible mistake. I can't carry a tune in a bucket. We played black theaters and nightclubs all over hell. One-nighters. Apollo Theater in Harlem and the Earle Theater in Philly - That was big time for blacks. — Jesse Owens

The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality. — Bobby Fischer

Only a tiny percentage of people in the world care about moral theory in the sense I have been discussing, whereas 100 percent of the people in the world like stories. Most moral insights come from stories, but it is the special virtue of the philosopher to organize those insights — Anonymous