Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Margaret Atwood Quote: 'If you're waiting for the perfect ...'

Related Quotes

My daughter and I have this thing we call a PMA: 'perfect moment alert.' I try to really notice when we're having a PMA.
Nina Jacobson
Tags: Really Thing Try
Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
Ada Yonath
Tags: Me Always Our
But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?
Nastassja Kinski
Tags: Death You Because
Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.
Camryn Manheim
Tags: Me Life Been
Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!
Charles Spurgeon
Tags: You Life Our
It's difficult to write anything at the moment, as every week there's a seismic shift in world events.
Stewart Lee
You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.
Wayne Grady
Tags: You Want Only
sassolungo dolomites mountains
When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no.


Jose Carreras
Tags: You Very Say
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
J. K. Rowling
Tags: Knowledge Them He
I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house where I can write and I like to keep moving around. The moment I find myself falling into a necessary routine, I change it. I'd rather not accumulate superstitions.
Stephen Dobyns
peach tree fruit peach nature
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.


Paulo Coelho
Tags: Always Life Right
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooden
Tags: You Who Will
sun denmark summer sunset sea
Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.


Zoe Kazan
Tags: You Going Come
Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
Basil Rathbone
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Tags: Life Than Will
I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.
Amity Gaige
Tags: Good People Like
There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.
Bill Gates
People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
Eddie Huang
Tags: You People About
Well 'Monday Night Football,' I think the players kind of like it because they like the attention, and it's a lot of attention. But on the other hand, it's a disruption of the routine we used to have to play on Monday night. If you're a player, you sit around all day waiting for a game. It's different than when you play at noon.
Bud Grant
Tags: You Like Think
You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Tags: You Me Up