Precise Quotes

390 quotes by 349 authors

Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must… — Gary Wolf
Ang Lee is very precise. He will show you everything, and will let you know what he is thinking about the whole project. There are… — Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or,… — Italo Calvino
The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image. — Glenn Greenwald
We have little choice but to place a certain level of trust in scientists - even when it comes to the model-driven speculative discipline of… — David Harsanyi
Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time,… — Linn Ullmann
We do not know the precise time of the Second Coming of the Savior, but we do know that we are living in the latter… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style.… — Dario Argento
I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am… — Per Petterson
No historical analogies are exactly precise. — Rick Perlstein
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things. — Richard Flanagan
An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one. — John Tuley
Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise. — Douglas Dunn
In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a… — Seth Lloyd
I was not surprised by the results of the Horizon experiments, but I remain willing to observe and consider any and all other tests that… — James Randi
If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it… — Michelle Hunziker
A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall. — Jean Stafford
That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part… — Edward Everett
The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter… — Rene Cassin
The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that… — K. Eric Drexler

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