Language Quote by Peter Abelard

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and…

— Walter Pater

The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of…

— Martin Puryear

Bette Midler is this sort of laser-precise whirlwind. We only worked together for two days, but her precision, before even shooting, was remarkable.

— Alex Lawther

While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate…

— Bertrand Russell

Getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision.

— Dan Quayle

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“He had no interest in precision, or even any ability to be precise.”

— Michael Wolff

“Don't go in for the "yellowish" if what you need is "yellow". The attitude called precision is the quality that remarks the accuracy of…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

— Donald Rumsfeld

“Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.”

— Steven Erikson

Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same…

— Linn Ullmann

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

— David Whyte