#perfect

Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not. ↗

— George Shearing

#discipline #disciplined #i #improvisation #lot

This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path. ↗

— Gary Sheffield

#cleaned #emotions #gary #god-like #here

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#flight #forces #had #i #just

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name. ↗

— Matthew Shipp

#fit #his #monk #more #name

I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#i think #mistake #perfectionist #think #which

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

#been #extinguisher #fire #flaming #perfect

Her problem is with pretty,” Tennyson said. "She thinks I’ll need all these dresses in college. Like I would ever in a billion years pledge a sorority. I’ll pack a few of these to be ironic, though. I can wear them to, like, truck stops at night with mascara running down my cheeks and stuff. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#college #college-application #dresses #glass-girl #graduation

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#cute #graceful #i #kind #me

There was a point when I was so sick of this physical perfection thing that I thought it would be good for all young girls to eat burgers and sweets as a rebellion but I don't think that anymore because it's not healthy. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#because #eat #good #healthy #i

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music. ↗

— Paul Simon

#kind #looking #magic #music #often