Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't quite form the same four perfect bonds.
I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
Ritu Kumar's clothes are totally great. Her embroidery is perfect. She lives up to her name over and over again.
There's such an emphasis on people being the perfect thing and then destroying them because it's good press.
I'd photographed musicians before but this was different. Syd was very charismatic, and he had the aura of a poete maudit, which made him the perfect subject for me - I realised that rock n' rollers were the modern equivalent of all the poets I was so enamoured with.
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.
At the combine and at my workouts, I tried to be the perfect player. I tried to promote my strengths and conceal my weaknesses, and on paper, I kind of succeeded: I was the first pick in the draft. And with that, I inherited this big shiny trophy that I carried around, and it had one word engraved on it - anxiety.
We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise.
In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned.
'Perfect competition' is considered both the ideal and the default state in Economics 101. So-called perfectly competitive markets achieve equilibrium when producer supply meets consumer demand.
May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
The perfect fit for L.A. would be the St. Louis Rams. I really believe that. I know their stadium deal is about expired, or it is expired. They're working through that. I think it would be the old Los Angeles Rams in town.
If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.
As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
Somehow, I knew you had to have perfect eyesight to be a test pilot, and so that was it for my astronaut career.
