Perfected Quotes

147 quotes by 136 authors

...HH Beard has perfected ...3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better..... in 1942 and onwards. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
...this charity...They quibble too much over procedures...while we seek a cure. They complain too loudly against another who, seemingly, has perfected a work that the… — Roland V. Libonati
Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected. — James Russell Lowell
There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death,"… — Edgar Allan Poe
One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery: the shortest, cheapest… — S. J. Perelman
You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earthâ€”and yet sometimes we… — Boris Johnson
The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale,… — Andy Warhol
There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes… — John Ruskin
I have finally perfected my signature. It took hours of practicing I decided early on just to write Pippa, not Middleton. — Pippa Middleton
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less… — Clay Shirky
We have perfected our weapons but failed to perfect the men who use them. — Billy Graham
In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a… — Charles Horton Cooley
The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly… — Thomas Merton
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the… — John Lahr
You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected. — Richard MacDonald
By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it. — George Orwell
I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation… — Roberta Flack
I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and I don't know if I ever quite… — Alison Brie
I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions. — Josh Duhamel
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about… — Thomas A. Edison

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