A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on… — Elizabeth Cunningham Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of respect for the craft, I don't know how much respect it has for me. But it's… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Even if we don't play fantastically, with good passing and precision and finesse, the most important thing is to win. — Olivier Giroud Copy Share Image
A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable… — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision. — Lionel Messi Copy Share Image
Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision,… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“Q: What's the biggest myth about writing? A: That there's any wildness attached to it. Writing tends to be very deliberate." [… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: she dances seriously, like… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
Boris Johnson needs to be challenged, with passion, heart and precision. — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Contrary to most people’s beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision. — Shayan Italia Copy Share Image
