Perfectly Quotes

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There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything. — Twyla Tharp
I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized; people don't throw… — Linus Torvalds
I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not… — Linus Torvalds
I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux. — Linus Torvalds
For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let… — Pete Townshend
I'm perfectly fine now if I never went on stage again. — Tina Turner
I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people are absolutely going… — Carrie Underwood
It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time. — Sigourney Weaver
I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three. — Florence Welch
I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. — Orson Welles
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In… — Orson Welles
I have certain signatures, certain cutting principles. It could be a raw-edged seam; it could be leaving the lining of sheepskin exposed so it's not… — Vivienne Westwood
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human… — Oscar Wilde
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. — Oscar Wilde
When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not… — A. N. Wilson
The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life… — Robert Anton Wilson
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. — Frank Lloyd Wright
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. — Lin Yutang
Men couldn't care less if your strands are perfectly styled and neat. In fact, he might like you more with some wildness or bedhead, since… — Helen Fisher
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. — Oscar Wilde
I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my… — D. H. Lawrence
I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may… — Philip Pullman
Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really… — Vladimir Nabokov
It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such… — John Irving
This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury… — Oscar Wilde

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