When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I have my boots custom-fitted in Cardiff. Everyone s feet are different, so to get measured up is a great bonus. You… — Peter Crouch Copy Share Image
Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like… — David Grossman Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are given exactly what we need. The precise people that you need the most come stumbling into your life. Sometimes… — Linda Olsson 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
Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the… — Arthur Hays Sulzberger Copy Share Image
I'm a singer, not a vocal stylist. My breathing is correct; my enunciation is precise. Because of that, I can sing anybody's… — Ronnie Milsap Copy Share Image
A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall. — Jean Stafford 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
Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
In his scintillating new novel, Matt Bondurant explores a crucial period in the history of Virginia and of his family. His gorgeous,… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Because of mathematics precise, formal character, mathematical arguments remain sound even when they are long and complex. In contast, common sense arguments… — Jacob T. Schwartz 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
I think it's very useful for you folks (reporters) to try your damndest to be precise. And don't repeat things that are… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
You can see that the care he took defiling the beauty he had forced in them was as precise and clean as… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
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