Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair -… — Aaron Staton Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm a practicing psychiatrist and I think that I really believe in the advances of psychiatry. Our diagnoses are more precise. — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
When an instrument admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
The thing about film is it is a very precise form. You know if you have it and you know if you… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Standards of beauty describe in precise terms the relationship that an individual will have to her own body. They prescribe her mobility,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
In either case, ugly or beautiful, people derive a significant part of their identity, be it negative or positive, from their body.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
There are so many different kinds of people in America, with so many different boiling points, that we don't know how to… — Florence King Copy Share Image
A sound does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needing another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has not… — John Cage Copy Share Image
A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise,… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it.… — Jim Lefebvre Copy Share Image
The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The extent to which we take everyday objects for granted is the precise extent to which they govern and inform our lives. — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads. — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant. — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
I can give a precise day when Christ came to me and began to transform my life with his power and love. — Keith Ward Copy Share Image
[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
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