Precise Quotes · Page 5

Getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision.

— Dan Quayle

It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.

— Jeanette Winterson

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

— Winston Churchill

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

— Lewis Thomas

I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.

— Tennessee Williams

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

— John von Neumann

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I was fascinated by the powerful yet precise dance performances of K-pop. I loved Rain and 2NE1.

— Momo Hirai

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

— Niklaus Wirth

While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a…

— Cynthia Nixon

When a baby first looks at you...when it laughs that deep, unselfconscious gurgle; or when it cries and you pick it up…

— Marilyn French

Maybelline's Precise Ink Pen Liner is by far the easiest liquid eyeliner I've ever used. I'm really bad at applying liquid liner,…

— Bethany Mota

A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more…

— Robert Herrick

I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I…

— Olivier Megaton

In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as…

— Seth Lloyd

If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social…

— Marshall McLuhan

“Are you throwing darts at the challenges in your life? Hoping something sticks? Try using a laser instead! Choose the biggest challenge…

— James A. Murphy

The practice of first developing a clear and precise definition of a process without regard for efficiency, and then using it as…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded…

— Helen Van Slyke

Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very…

— Thomas Jefferson

I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then…

— William Zinsser

The artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction,…

— Aisha Hinds

I never cared about buying things for myself, like clothes. And then all of a sudden I realized how great it is…

— Marc Jacobs

Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves…

— Stewart Brand

On Earth Day I made a commitment to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000. And…

— William J. Clinton

I am trying to represent design through drawing. I have always drawn things to a high degree of detail. That is not…

— Neil Denari

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes…

— Richard E. Pattis

What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and…

— Rick Hilles

Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence-so much so that they were quite unimpressed by…

— Karl Popper

All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of…

— Robert Kennedy

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

— Jean Stafford

Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.

— Imre Lakatos

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

— Theodor Adorno

An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.

— John Tuley

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

— James Dickey

There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about.

— John von Neumann

In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

— Herman Melville

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be…

— Francisco Costa