#perfect

We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us. ↗

— Barbara Mandrell

#blessed #dead #go #god #had

A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#come #emotion #go #groove #machine

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#best #best part #cigar #deprives #good

There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass. ↗

— Dan Marino

#defense #i #i can #pass #perfect

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. ↗

— Jose Marti

#bird #body #bones #done #essence

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly. ↗

— Steve Martin

#got #i #now #perfectly #shot

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#fact #i #i think #in fact #leaks

As a kid, during the school year, my head was often buried in a textbook or Judy Blume book; the words and pictures were the perfect, barrier-free environment for me. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#buried #during #environment #head #judy

So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#allow #back #deep #dig #down

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#being #illusion #life #like #nothing