#perfect

I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#beautiful #because #bother #come #either

I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath. ↗

— Meg Tilly

#because #i #lot #mess #perfect

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. ↗

— Epictetus

#anything #approach #brings #each #happiness

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals. ↗

— Julius Erving

#basic #beyond #countless #fundamentals #had

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#bedroom #bought #distracted #end #exposed

I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#get #i #latin #latin women #looking

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#away #english #go #go away #i

There comes a point in your life when you realize your parents aren't perfect. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#life #parents #perfect #point #realize

I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?' ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#any #authors #bags #corner #degrees

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. ↗

— Rebecca West

#clumsy #gestures #imperfect #international #knowledge