Accurate Quotes

479 Accurate quotes by 404 unique authors

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are. — Jonathan Coe
I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles on an issue… — Jay Griffiths
I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out… — Jennifer Egan
Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me. — Bjork
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and… — James A. Garfield
To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures. — Otto Neurath
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 out of people. — Richard M. Nixon
Life cannot be classified in terms of a simple neurological ladder, with human beings at the top; it is more accurate to talk of different… — Brian Reynolds Myers
If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a… — James Chanos
It's like having a conversation. Doing beatbox for me is as natural as talking is for someone else. Sending sound through a certain part of… — Doug E. Fresh
I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over… — Edie Falco
We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins) of publicans and… — G. C. Berkouwer
By the way, Wonder Woman is Amazonian, and historically accurate Amazonian women actually had only one breast. So, if I'd really go 'by the book'… — Gal Gadot
A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a… — Paul Krugman
Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very few who can… — Jean Lorrain
While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future… — Samuel Wilson
The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears. — Derek R. Audette
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the… — Ambrose Bierce
Reincarnation is a hopeful understanding of life. It is an accurate understanding of life. In each lifetime we grow, develop and evolve. — Frederick Lenz
A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for… — Gayl Jones
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the… — Oscar Wilde
You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book.… — Richard Dawkins
If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as… — Lewis Carroll
He [Groucho's father] had absolutely no training, and if you had ever seen one of his suits, you'd realize what an accurate statement that is.… — Groucho Marx

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