Precise Quotes

390 quotes by 349 authors

I believe I am becoming pathetic. I'll go further, I believe that I am in love with a flower-growing, wood-carving quarryman/carpenter/pig farmer. In fact, I… — Mary Ann Shaffer
A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness… — Henry Hazlitt
...A strange art â€“ music â€“ the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra. — Guy de Maupassant
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which… — Ray Bradbury
The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague. — Garth Stein
It's healthy to ditch class now and then." To be precise, it was healthier for humans if vampires ditched on days when human blood would… — Stephenie Meyer
The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had… — Michel Foucault
You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your… — Judith McNaught
There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.)… — William Goldman
Ah, grief makes us precise! — Leonard Cohen
The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it. — Karen Marie Moning
I looked him in the eye, "I will always love you." Then plunged the stake into his chest. It wasn't as precise a blow as… — Richelle Mead
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of… — Alan Moore
The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone... — Arthur Miller
We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of… — Anne Rice
All of her heart, a meaningless phrase, but correct and precise, too. She used her heart to love him, not her head, and not her… — Charles Yu
Clockwork could not run counter to its nature. The seconds, minutes, and hours moved only forward. Patient, precise, and unstoppable. Memory was an indulgence, an… — Matthew J. Kirby
The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our… — Haruki Murakami
I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds, gates, guards, all… — Helene Hanff
Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is… — H.G. Wells

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