Almost Perfect Quotes:

We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought.

- Roger Angell

source: Roger Angell (2015). “This Old Man: All in Pieces”, p.20, Anchor

topic: Reading, Book, Almost Perfect

Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime, an almost total resolution of the world, which merely leave the illusion of a particular object shining forth, the image of which then becomes an impenetrable enigma.

- Jean Baudrillard

source: Jean Baudrillard, Peter Weibel (1999). “Fotografien”, Hatje Cantz Pub

topic: Almost Perfect, Shining, World, Perfect Crime

My mentality is like a Samurai: They used to every day work on their technique to make themselves almost perfect. Because perfection is impossible, but every day, you get closer to perfection.

- Georges St-Pierre

topic: Wrestling, Almost Perfect, Perfection

Flowers are almost perfect; their only flaw is that they are weak; they can't protect themselves against the evil!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Flower, Almost Perfect, Evil

He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.

- Saint Francis de Sales

topic: Pain, Almost Perfect, Worry

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Father, Almost Perfect, Roots, Perfect Relationship

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

- Rem Koolhaas

topic: Perfect, Incredibles, Stillness, Almost Perfect, Urgency

A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Children, Hero, Fighting, Almost Perfect

There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

- Stephanie Klein

topic: Ugly Duckling, Perfect, Ducklings, Almost Perfect

In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day Voltairean by whimpering that he could see how this might shake belief in a friendly creator. Williamson is of course a notorious fool, who does an almost perfect imitation of a bleating and frightened sheep, but even so, one is forced to rub one's eyes in astonishment. Is it possible that a grown man could live so long and still have his personal composure, not to mention his lifetime job description, upset by a large ripple of seawater?

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Almost Perfect, Canterbury

Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in which the artist's methods and the killers' are ideally matched, equal in cunning and in ruthlessness. The screenplay, adapted by Clouzot and three other writers from a novel by the crack French crime-fiction team of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, is a fantastically elaborate piece of contrivance, but the scrupulous realism of the direction makes the unnatural tale somehow feel entirely likely.

- Terrence Rafferty

topic: Team, Artist, Perfect, Ruthlessness, Almost Perfect

Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change something immediately, it will come out great

- Michel Hazanavicius

source: "Cannes Interview: ‘The Artist’ Director Michel Hazanavicius and Star Berenice Bejo". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. May 18, 2011.

topic: Perfect, Actors, Sometimes, Almost Perfect

I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

- Dale Murphy

topic: People, Giving, Perfect, Almost Perfect

Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only two hours a day can write in the back of an open truck on the Interstate.

- Gene Wolfe

topic: Writing, Two, Perfect, Interstate, Almost Perfect

Id like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

- Venus Williams

topic: Order, Play, Perfect, Almost Perfect

You'll make mistakes and struggle like everyone, but when you are with the right person, you'll almost perfect joy, like you are the luckiest person who ever lived. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Mistake, Struggle, Mean, Almost Perfect