Famous quotes containing the words perfect, competition and/or model:
“I call the years when our children are between six and twelve the golden years, not because everythings perfect . . . but because the kids are capable and independent. . . . Theyre becoming fascinating human beings who continually astound us and make us laugh. And they build our self-esteem. They still adore us for the most part, not yet having reached that age of thinking everything we do is dumb, old-fashioned and irrelevant.”
—Vicki Lansky (20th century)
“Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody elses house to earn money? Youre working class. Wearing overalls at weekends, painting your own house to save money? Youre middle class.”
—Lawrence Sutton, British prizewinner in competition in Sunday Correspondent (London)
“She represents the unavowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelityand infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.”
—Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)