The 200 meters is my baby. To me, it's the perfect distance. It's still a true sprint, but it unravels more. You get to enjoy the race a little bit more than the 100.

- Allyson Felix

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.

- Annie Dillard

Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.

- Andrew Weil

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

- Andrew Jackson

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.

- Andrew Jackson

You can't be perfect at everything.

- Andie MacDowell

Don't worry about the room being messy! Everything can't be perfect - you have to let some things go, and it's better to actually sit down on the floor with your child than spend time worrying about having a perfect house.

- Andie MacDowell

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'

- Amy Lee

Perfect is boring.

- Amanda Seyfried

I don't like to play characters that are too perfect.

- Amanda Seyfried

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

- Adam Sandler

I love my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it's the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you - because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves.

- Allen Iverson

For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

- Alicia Keys

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

- Alfred Hitchcock

I tend to like the most basic pieces with the perfect fit and fabric, like a simple tank.

- Alexander Wang

For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.

- Alexander McQueen

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

- Alexander Hamilton

Tax time is the perfect opportunity to jumpstart your spring-cleaning by tackling your financial to-do list.

- Alexa Von Tobel

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

- Alanis Morissette

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

- Alain de Botton