Clea Duvall Quotes

Good is not good, where better is expected

Better than nothing is not good enough for you!

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

I just cannot take mediocrity. I just cannot take it on any level.

I'm not someone who complains in any way about how things move forward, unless somebody actually does a really crappy job.

It might be quite boring if you did something and thought it was perfect.

If anyone thinks my show was 'pretty good,' then I've completely failed.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

I did my best. I guess my best wasn't good enough.

Are you not entertained?

Everything seems stupid when it fails.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

Once you've been number one, you can never be satisfied with less.

I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it's wrong.

I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.

I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door.

We didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than we’d gotten here. We didn't come all this way for no two seats, 'cause all of us is tired.

Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I'm tired of being second. I'm not going to settle for that. I'm done with it.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.