Terry Pratchett Quotes

Yes, the world is short of perfect.

Perfection is an impossible destination

Perfection can never be attained by work.

There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.

We take issue even with perfection.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

To be human is to err, isn't it?

Nothing is ever perfect in the NBA.

I don't think anybody is perfect.

Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.

My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.

Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person's silence.

Bruno, my old faithful. I haven't sufficiently described him. Is it enough to say he is indescribable? No. Better to try and fail than not to try at all.

If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

I love language, and I love the failure of language.

Obviously, Miss Craig, not enough.

A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.