Unevenness Quotes

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.

The world is hugely unequal.

Everything can't be sweet. Everything can't be peaches and cream.

Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.

A ruler isn't always straight.

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

Some days you have it; some days you don't.

With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

Unevenness of economic and political development is the inflexible law of capitalism.

Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.

Every human society has its lights and its shadows. That's the reality of existence.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.

One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?

One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.

Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

America is a funny place; it's a land of extremes, I think. There's fantastic, and there's gobsmackingly dreadful. In every realm you could imagine, they do extremes very well or badly, depending on how you look at it.

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.