The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.
‐‐ Doug Aitken
The perfect rescue dog is out there for everybody. You just have to find it.
‐‐ Josh Hopkins
The perfect shorts are always important.
‐‐ Britt Robertson
The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.
‐‐ Malik Bendjelloul
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
The perfect winter's night for me would be with all the family together. As you get a little older and everybody has their jobs and then families and kids, it definitely becomes harder to get everybody together at once.
‐‐ Charles Kelley
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
‐‐ Quintilian
The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.
‐‐ Ellen G. White
The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'
‐‐ Paul Ryan
The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at the same time having regard to appropriateness and harmony of expression. Its greater excellencies are directness, accuracy, appropriateness and perspicuity.
‐‐ Joseph P. Bradley
The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.
‐‐ Fritz Weaver
The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
‐‐ Samantha Power
The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.
‐‐ Emily Blunt
The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
‐‐ Carlisle Floyd
The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowlands in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be messy and imperfect. It's that kind of woman that has always inspired me to seek roles that are a little out of the box. I just haven't always had the opportunity to do them.
‐‐ Kirsten Dunst
The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
‐‐ Maggie Smith
The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.
‐‐ Tom Shales
The period 1924 to 1929 was spent studying chemistry at the Czech Institute of Technology in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The supervisor of my thesis was Professor Emil Votocek, one of the prominent founders of chemical research in Czechoslovakia.
‐‐ Vladimir Prelog
The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.
‐‐ Laurie R. King
The period before the game can be important to influence opinions, characters, personalities, feelings, and, of course, I use that to touch my players, to touch opponents, to touch supporters.
‐‐ Jose Mourinho
The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am happy.
‐‐ Arjun Rampal
The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.
‐‐ Baba Kalyani
The period of time just before you awaken is the time I have my most creative thoughts and discover the best solutions.
‐‐ Lisa Marie Presley
The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.
‐‐ Arto Lindsay
The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.
‐‐ Jose Saramago
The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.
‐‐ Edward Norton
The periods between my 11th and 18th years remain the most vivid in my memory because this was the time of my first attempts at experimentation, which might never have been made had I lived in the city. I made hazardous investigations of the principles of flight, launching myself from the tops of haystacks with a homemade glider.
‐‐ Godfrey Hounsfield
The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.
‐‐ Owen Hart
The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.
‐‐ Scott McClellan
The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists.
‐‐ Hugh Newell Jacobsen
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
‐‐ James A. Michener
The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.
‐‐ Roy Jenkins
The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
‐‐ Ferdinand Marcos
The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking.
‐‐ Henry Rollins
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.
‐‐ John Fiske
The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
‐‐ Xun Kuang
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
‐‐ Jane Austen
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer
The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things.
‐‐ Nick Hanauer
The person I always enjoy having a meal with is Cilla Black. I might not see her for months, but then I'll pick her up at her flat, and we'll go to a restaurant, and it's like I've seen her that morning.
‐‐ Paul O'Grady
The person I am every single day is the person that's growing and getting better. The more people look up to me, the more important it is to be concise with what message I want to leave. That's where I feel like I'm a role model. Maybe not to everyone, but for a lot of minorities, I am, and I kinda love that - the role model for the underdog.
‐‐ Ruby Rose
The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.
‐‐ Tom Watson
The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.
‐‐ Dawn French
The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan
The person I love most is the Dalai Lama. China destroyed his country, yet he says that it's imperative we show love for the Chinese.
‐‐ Monique Roffey
The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.
‐‐ Charlie Rose
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
‐‐ Joyce Brothers