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

topic: Book, Perfect, Designer, Perfect Things

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

- Damien Hirst

topic: Suicide, Thinking, Perfect, Perfect Things

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

source: Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Life's Tragedy”

topic: Perfect, Joy, Perfect Things

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

topic: Encouragement, Father, Journey, Perfect Things, Heavenly Father

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

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

topic: Beach, Morning, Perfect, Perfect Things, Elegy

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

topic: Home, Writing, Son, Perfect Things

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

topic: Suicide, Running, Weed, Brick Wall, Perfect Things

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

- Daniel Handler

source: Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.16, Egmont UK

topic: Heart, Desire, Turns, Perfect Things, Uninvited

There are names like Savoy Hotel, Caruso, Shangri-La, Pavlove, Mount Everest and the Treorchy Male Choir that just hang up there as peaks of excellence - perfect things that we simply take for granted as symbols of greatness. So imagine how delighted and honoured I am to join with all the other small peaks in congratulating the Choir of Choirs on its anniversary. In admiration, since I was a boy!

- Ron Moody

topic: Greatness, Boys, Names, Perfect Things, Mount Everest

[Sasha] for me it was a dream. I got to tell everybody where to go and how fast to get there. It was very exciting. It was still an Aaron Spelling show, with the hair and make-up and everything, but there were also motorcycles. For my life, at that time, it was such a perfect thing. I had all this inner anger to get out, and it was so exciting to get paid to do it. She had anger and sexuality and rebellion, but there was still that very sweet core. I didn't have to be something entirely unrecognizable or un-relatable. I just loved her to death.

- Brigid Brannagh

topic: Dream, Sweet, Hair, Perfect Things, Very Sweet

It depends on your specific conception of God, because belief can equally well leave you with this constant sense that you're coming up short and you're being judged and you're not doing quite the perfect thing. You know, I was brought up very religiously, and I never totally lost that sense, you know, that I'm screwing up.

- Joel Achenbach

topic: Perfect, Belief, Lost, Perfect Things, Being Judged

I would not be as married to locations and ideas, when I show up in the city that I'm actually going to shoot it in. You really have to roll with it. That perfect thing you have in your head just isn't going to be there sometimes, and you have to figure out what you're going to do, if you can't find it.

- Kevin Munroe

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Cities, Ideas, Perfect, Perfect Things

There’s a need to perfect things in a writers’ room, and that can take a lot of fun out of a show sometimes. It’s a struggle. It depends on your personality. Some people love working with a writing staff. I had a great writing staff on Lucky Louie, but it sometimes felt like Congress or something.

- Louis C. K.

source: "Writing Comedy – Interview with Louis C.K". Interview with Dan Calvisi, actfourscreenplays.com. July 16, 2010.

topic: Fun, Struggle, Writing, Perfect Things

With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing.

- Shane Claiborne

source: "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

topic: Christian, Mother, Father, Perfect Things

Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.

- Robert Benton

source: Source: classic.esquire.com

topic: Ideas, Perfect, Important, Perfect Things

When it was offered [a role in The Flash] I just thought it sounded like the perfect thing that I would want to do. Then they announced it online the day after and I was terrified, because I hadn't read anything, I hadn't shot anything. What if I'm awful? What if they fire me on the first day? But what I discovered was a bunch of really happy actors who want to make the best show possible, because it's fun. Not for any other reason.

- Tom Felton

source: "The Flash: 9 questions with Tom Felton". Interview with Ed Gross, www.empireonline.com. October 3, 2016.

topic: Fun, Fire, Perfect, Perfect Things

I tried to make the punchline as close to the setup as I could. And I thought that was the perfect thing. If I could make the setup and the punchline identical to each other, I would create a different kind of joke.

- Norm MacDonald

source: Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

topic: Perfect, Different, Kind, Perfect Things, Punchlines

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

source: Source: www.moviesonline.ca

topic: Character, Mean, Hands, Perfect Things

The discipline of live theater - doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week - never ceases to amaze me

- Neil Patrick Harris

topic: Night, Eight, Discipline, Live Theater, Perfect Things

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

- Ed Sheeran

topic: Writing, Tunes, Gigs, Fingers Crossed, Perfect Things

I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere.

- Cormac McCarthy

topic: Writing, Thinking, Perfect, Signposts, Perfect Things

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

- Alice Munro

topic: Perfect, Poet, Perfect Things

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

topic: Love, Wrong Number, Ideas, Twists And Turns, Perfect Things

When I kicked in the first TV Â– a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels Â– 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

topic: Long, Perfect, Inspire, Perfect Things

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

topic: Real, Names, Perfect, Perfect Things, Real True

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

- Adrienne Monnier

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

topic: Sight, Perfect, Suffering, Perfect Things

I went to see Shine a Light, and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch that man do what he does in front of an audience. Its primarily Mick Jagger, but theyre all so confident and relaxed and in love with what they do, and aware of the power of what they do. Its just deeply, deeply attractive.

- Ben Daniels

topic: Men, Light, Perfect, Perfect Things

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

- William C. Bryant

topic: Beautiful, Art, Perfect, Perfect Things

In a simple and a peaceful cottage with a beautiful view, you will not be dreaming about the palaces or the heaven, because you already have a perfect thing!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Beautiful, Dream, Simple, Perfect Things

There is an advantage in having a routine and working with the same people when you can and in writing as a regular thing and filming as a regular thing. That routine pays off for you. You get a lot of productivity that way, rather than sitting around waiting for inspiration and waiting for the perfect thing to happen. I would be much less productive that way.

- Woody Allen

topic: Inspiration, Writing, People, Perfect Things, Sitting Around Waiting

It's a funny thing about stories. It doesn't feel like you make them up, more like you find them. You type and type and you know you haven't got it yet, because somewhere out there, there's that perfect thing -- the unexpected ending that was always going to happen. That place you've always been heading for, but never expected to go.

- Steven Moffat

topic: Funny Things, Perfect, Stories, Somewhere Out There, Perfect Things

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