Precise Quotes · Page 4

God has brought me to Kentucky...the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification.

— Thomas Merton

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

— Oscar Wilde

Baking is too precise for me. I cook with a pinch of this or that.

— Eva Longoria

In animation, you do so much planning ahead of time; it has to be so precise.

— Phil Lord

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

— Douglas Dunn

Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.

— Marquis de Lafayette

Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

— Nate Silver

Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others

— Peter Abelard

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

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

— Glenn Greenwald

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 precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here

— Herb Caen

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'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.

— Alan Bennett

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of…

— Richard Flanagan

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

— Lionel Trilling

We are extremely precise about the girls we like; they're not necessarily the "It" girls of the season. Sometimes this "It" girl…

— Christophe Lemaitre

Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about…

— Meghan O'Rourke

If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress.…

— Michelle Hunziker

Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over…

— Temple Grandin

Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one…

— Stanislaw Ulam

[Tikka Khan] went to East Pakistan with precise orders and came back by precise orders. He did what he was ordered to…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such…

— Harry Browne

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

— Kenny Smith

The Sage of Toronto... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to…

— Guy Debord

I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under…

— Tom Robbins

I want to be a hybrid fighter. From Pacquiao I was able to learn that a big heart is also essential when…

— Tomoki Kameda

The word 'vegetable' has no precise botanical meaning in reference to food plants, and we find that almost all parts of plants…

— Charles Heiser

I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when…

— Paul Feyerabend

The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the…

— Andre Gide

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

— Bernie Glassman

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids.

— Al Yankovic

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise…

— Felix Mendelssohn

The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone...

— Arthur Miller

I have no problem with anyone being precise about small things.

— Steven Zaillian

“I am who I need to be at this precise moment; this is my journey.”

— Muse en Lystrala

Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.

— Louis de Bernieres

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

— Paul Valery

“He had no interest in precision, or even any ability to be precise.”

— Michael Wolff