Precise Quotes

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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. — Bertrand Russell
I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living,… — Martha Graham
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or… — Walt Whitman
I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are… — Dorothy L. Sayers
To be more precise it was the color of heartache. — Susanna Clarke
I want someone who will adore me so much that they cannot even walk past me without touching me in some way. I want someone… — Jane Green
Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension… — Tom Stoppard
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise… — Khaled Hosseini
There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often… — William Goldman
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those thingsâ€”a… — Raymond Carver
What are you doing?" "Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly. It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and cane, watching her… — Shannon Hale
It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide of a cow,… — Barbara Kingsolver
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate,… — Vera Nazarian
Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a… — Zadie Smith
This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel… — Alice Munro
Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands… — Tana French
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in… — Mercedes Lackey
He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even… — Vladimir Nabokov
In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention… — Julia Cameron

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