Accurate Quotes · Page 7

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

— Max Beerbohm

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

— Herbert Bayard Swope

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

— Edgar Allan Poe

'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was…

— Jack Horner

Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.

— Jill Lepore

I think that Rachel Maddow is probably the most assertive, politically motivated and accurate voice of my generation.

— Mehcad Brooks

From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in…

— Margaret Mead

The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular; but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the…

— Abraham Lincoln

No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that…

— Michael Scheuer

I think the way the greens are, you need to be very accurate with your irons. Whether there's wind or not, the…

— Luke Donald

The cost of a model is more than compensated for by future savings. It not only presents an accurate picture of the…

— Henry Dreyfuss

Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know—that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was…

— Daniel Gilbert

My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech,…

— Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right…

— Kara Swisher

Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding…

— Zach Johnson

Your doubts are not the product of accurate thinking, but habitual thinking. Years ago you excepted flawed conclusions as correct, begin to…

— Price Pritchett

Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels. If you stand…

— Vera Nazarian

Individuals of the earlier species had suffered from an almost insurmountable spiritual isolation from one another. Not even lovers, and scarcely even…

— Olaf Stapledon

My stepfather, John O'Hara, was the goodest man there was. He was not a man of many words, but of carefully chosen…

— Sarah Silverman

I do not know what might be the most fitting description… I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It…

— Pope Francis

“Madoc makes a snorting sound, then turns to me. 'I am sure that Wren here wouldn't mind taking Lady Nore's castle and…

— Holly Black

We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't…

— Charles Lindbergh

Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines…

— J. C. R. Licklider

It was important that this album [Chain Letter] was an accurate reflection of me

— Brooke Valentine

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

— Alan Keyes

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

— Rollo May

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

— James Frey

“You weren't quite accurate just now." "I? Not accurate?" Poirot sounded affronted.”

— Agatha Christie

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.

— Herman Cain

“There are two kinds of tales: one accurate but not true, the other true but not accurate.”

— Margaret George

That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.

— Sarah Silverman

“I couldn't help it: Brendan was abs-olutely pec-tacular, horrible puns intended and very accurate.”

— Cara Lynn Shultz

It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

— Ken Burns

'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.

— Caitlin Stasey

My favorite piece of tech gear is my SRM power meter. It's the most accurate power meter on the market.

— Timothy O'Donnell

I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.

— Matthew Yglesias

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend…

— Neill Blomkamp