Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the…

“You didn't simply deny the existence of a thing because it didn't fit into your theory of the universe; the existence of the thing…

— Pseudonymous Bosch

Nick Flynn is another writer I admire - his fragmented sections, his playfulness with genre, his urgency. The palette in his work is his…

— Jill Talbot

All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.

— William Zinsser

As you become more aware of your own imperfections, you simultaneously become more aware of the overall perfection of the universe.

— Frederick Lenz

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

— Jaron Lanier

Infinite is Imperfection, because never totally achieved. If Infinite was perfection, it will have a Point A and a point Z. And it will…

— Flame The Thinker

I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings…

— Bette Midler

If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself, others and the world around you, you may find the happiness that has…

— Suman Rai

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness…

— Lisa Kleypas

Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.

— Anderson Silva

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible…

— Morris West

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in…

— Margaret Halsey

Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples…

— Philip Yancey

The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost…

— Francis Collins

I'm perfectly flawed... I've got tons of flaws.

— Rob Lowe