Quotes About Exact

WHISTLER: Dorothy Roberts, who weekly for 13 years whistled the 37 notes (13 at the beginning, 11 leading into the story, 13 at the end); composer Hatch estimated that only one person in 20 could whistle the exact melody.

There's always little things that you can find to incorporate, I think, from your life, whether it be the exact circumstance or something similar that maybe brought up a similar emotion in you.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

Thanks to her having kept a diary even as a teenager, Mary was able to give the exact date of her arrival in Hollywood: April 19, 1923, two weeks before her seventeenth birthday.

For some reason she leaves a very strong impression on me. She looks exactly how I picture Nadja, André Breton's Nadja.

Any security issues, you have to be very hands on to really understand what's the exact problem, and then take quick action.

It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing.

Clement, shook his head in amusement. "I did that exactly forty seconds

But Slipher felt he needed to acquire an even better spectrum to peg the exact speed. It was an endeavor, he told Lowell, that "would doubtless impress all these observers as a quite hopeless undertaking, and maybe it is, but I want [to] make an attempt.

Wergeld, my Maker," said Thorne. "As it was in my time, I exact the wergeld or payment for my own life, which you took when you made a blood drinker. I take it through Santino's life, which I take beneath your roof.

Yet Laplace had built his probability theory on intuition. As far as he was concerned, essentially, the theory of probability is nothing but good common sense reduced to mathematics. It provides an exact appreciation of what sound minds feel with a kind of instinct, frequently without being able to account for it.

If the universe had been bent on handling an example of the exact opposite of who I was, it couldn't have found a better one.

Reality is seldom as melodramatic as entertainment. On the other hand, reality is more random, arbitrary, and dangerous than fiction, and it's my job to understand that to exact tolerances.

Within the whole domain of experience [only] a selected portion is capable of that exact representation which is requisite for development by the scientific method.

I have my dream job. If I was seven years old and you asked me what I'd want to be 30 years from now, I'd say exactly who I am. So, 'rare' and 'lucky' are the exact right words. It took a lot of hard work, and I took a weird route to get here, but man, am I grateful for it.

I'm rarely wrong.

When you do a freeze frame, you have the opportunity to find the exact shot that you want - no guessing.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

And this means time is a mystery, and not even a thing, and no one has solved the puzzle of what time is, exactly. And so if you get lost in time it is like being lost in a desert, except that you can't see the desert because it is not a thing. And this is why I like timetables, because they make sure you don't get lost in time.

And this mean time is a mystery, and not even a thing, and no one has solved the puzzle of what time is, exactly. And so if you get lost in time it is like being lost in a desert, except that you can't see the desert because it is not a thing. And this is why I like timetables, because they make sure you don't get lost in time.

he said, as he stepped across the Close, habited in his best suit of black, with most exact white cravat, and yet looking not quite like a clergyman, — with some touch of the undertaker in his gait.

I thought this couldn't happen in astronomy. Isn't celestial mechanics supposed to be an exact science? So we poor backward biologists were always being told.

You have brought detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought in this world." My companion flushed up with pleasure at my words, and the earnest way in which I uttered them. I had already observed that he was as sensitive to flattery on the score of his art as any girl could be of her beauty.