Precise Quotes

Know what you are talking about.

— Pope John Paul II

BE ON POINT, BE PRECISE

— LEONARD PAUL ROSE

Ah, grief makes us precise!

— Leonard Cohen

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

— Rick Perlstein

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.

— Al Yankovic

I've made a career of being precise.

— Arlen Specter

My job is to be OK without a precise plan.

— Brooke Baldwin

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

“Don't look for the precise and local. Simply; do not be narrow minded.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My timing is so precise, a heckler would have to make an appointment just to get a word in.

— Phyllis Diller

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

— Bertrand Russell

BE ON POINT, BE SHARP ,BE PRECISE , NO ONE LIKES A DULL ANYTHING

— LEONARD PAUL ROSE

The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.

— Jane Hirshfield

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

— Bertrand Russell

[On Chinese Internet,] freedom is a targeted and precise window.

— Michael Anti

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

— Dejan Stojanovic

To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“To be more precise about it, it is neither close nor open-mindedness but wisdom, discernment, and a pure heart that God wants.”

— Criss Jami

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which…

— John Tukey

The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very…

— Gaspard Ulliel

The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to…

— Gustave Le Bon

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how…

— Michiel Huisman

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define…

— Glenn Greenwald

I would like to find a more precise way to not only tell the stories of female characters, but also do so…

— Danae Elon

I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will…

— Tamara de Lempicka

The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer…

— Leonard Bishop

I'm interested in ordinary experience, and regardless of the precise definition of ordinary, and I've found that in so-called ordinary experience, there…

— Frederick Wiseman

I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem--as I calculate it, of course--and I…

— Harriet Lerner

Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this…

— Dario Argento

Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and…

— Chogyam Trungpa

With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I.…

— Michael Specter

I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to…

— H. P. Lovecraft

The extraordinary language of Nonviolent Communication is changing how parents relate to children, teachers to students, and how we all related to…

— Bernie Glassman

We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could…

— Paulo Coelho

It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the…

— Martha Graham

Even the Interior Ministry in Riyadh was hit. Since then, the Saudis have employed a very intelligent and comprehensive approach to counter…

— David Petraeus

When I got onto set with him we were given a folder of storyboards. I thought that was pretty incredible because I…

— Mia Wasikowska

It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular…

— Marvin Minsky

We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides,…

— Linus Pauling

(The terms douloi, banausoi and aristoi) are in a way more precise, but what is more vital and valuable, they are more…

— Kenny Smith