Accurate Quotes · Page 8

“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

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

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

I do think people have suggested that it would be a good thing if the reporting were accurate on Al-Jazeera and if…

— Condoleezza Rice

I believe politicians should aim to be accurate and truthful in what they say at all times. You can be truthful and…

— Malcolm Turnbull

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an…

— Derek Jacobi

The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect…

— Peter Thiel

It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I…

— Sloane Crosley

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid: humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.

— Albert Einstein

There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted…

— Emily Barton

I always like to think I build in historically accurate musical in-jokes that are so precise that like maybe there's 7 or…

— Bear McCreary

People are always invoking evolutionary psychology for everything. "Why do men hang around asking women out? Oh, to improve their reproductive success,"…

— D. T. Max

If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate…

— Aristotle

By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to…

— Noam Chomsky

Actually, I'm frequently described as the UK's only translator of Korean literature, but even that isn't accurate - Agnita Tennant is UK-based,…

— Deborah Smith

Intellectuals love Jefferson and hate markets, and intellectuals write most of the books. Intellectuals often think that they should, for the benefit…

— John Steele Gordon

The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and…

— Lee Gutkind

In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade…

— Aristotle

If I wrote about "being [abstraction]" I would be ignoring existential issues (such as death, limited-time, the arbitrary nature of the universe,…

— Tao Lin

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

— Margaret Mead

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

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell…

— Richard M. Nixon

Readers are increasingly reliant on digital sources for information - and they are increasingly reliant on these sources to be accurate.

— Maria Konnikova

The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

— Nikola Tesla

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

— Ezra Pound

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

— Ken Livingstone

Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

— Janet Street-Porter

With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it. The way I put that…

— Barack Obama

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate

— Chi McBride

I don't think we can dignify documents dumped by Wikileaks and just assume that they're all accurate and true.

— Tim Kaine

Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge