Precise Quotes

390 quotes by 349 authors

Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is… — Noam Chomsky
...In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one… — Desmond Morris
A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself,… — Milan Kundera
Emotions werenâ€™t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. Iâ€™ve got a sense of the clock ticking. We have to… — Bjork
He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but won't, possibly can't,… — Michael Cunningham
The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist. — Guillermo del Toro
She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me â€” and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I knew: this is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is… — W G Sebald
I do shodo magic,â€ Dali said. â€œI curse through calligraphy. I have to write the curse out on a piece of paper and I canâ€™t… — Ilona Andrews
True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and careâ€”with no one there to see or… — David Foster Wallace
we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as… — Julian Barnes
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian… — Philip Yancey
Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise. — Jeanette Winterson
You are always looking at people like this.â€ And then she made a face, one he couldnâ€™t possibly begin to describe. â€œIf I ever look… — Julia Quinn
The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous… — David Rakoff
Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. You blush in each other's presence, you both hover in places where… — Louis de Bernieres
I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass… — Christopher Hitchens
Delirium: "What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to… — Neil Gaiman
THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the police… — Demetri Martin
And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only… — Jeanette Winterson

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