Accurate Quotes

479 Accurate quotes by 404 unique authors

I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then.… — John Steinbeck
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right. — Shirley Hazzard
I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate? — Steve Berry
But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure. — Lake Bell
I think things can have more than one meaning and still connect with people. There's a lot of meaning to the title 'Music For People'… — Jon Crosby
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 â€˜knowledgeâ€™ 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

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