Quotes About Accuracy

Bishop on "At the Fishhouses" At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I found I'd said codfish scales once when it should have been herring scales. I hope they corrected it all right. 2 Quite a few lines of "At the Fishhouses" came to me in a dream, and the scene— which was real enough, I'd recently been there—but the old man and the conversation, etc., were all in a later dream

Please inform His Excellency that his use of the word soon is inaccurate," she said coldly. "It means in a timely manner, which, in my case, obviously no longer applies.

I don't say it was likely -- I only say it is true.

The problem with information on the Internet is that it is hard to verify its authenticity." —Abraham Lincoln.     ââ'¬Â¢

Well, this, and this, and this have happened. It would not be accurate as told. She thought nothing could be told and be accurate. Feeble words dropped earnestly and haphazardly over the large stretched-out fabric of a life with all its knots and bumps— What words would she use to spread her experience before him?

Using his observations of the different shadows cast by sundials along the same meridian and a little number crunching, Eratosthenes made a calculation of the earth's diameter that was amazingly accurate: 7,850 miles, only about 60 off the actual mark.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

era preciso y fiable como una navaja suiza.

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.

A thorough knowledge of the past could lead a profound scholar to predict the future course of history with great accuracy, provided that it did not turn out quite differently.

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

Prophecy is a record of things before they transpire. History is a record of them after they have occurred; and of the two, prophecy is more to be trusted for its accuracy than history.

We come therefore now to that knowledge whereunto the ancient oracle directeth us, which is the knowledge of ourselves; which deserveth the more accurate handling, by how much it toucheth us more nearly.

The ranking never lies.

I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.

I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.

I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts. Obviously, we have to fill in the blanks. And then in the final analysis, we're drawing upon our own imaginations. But I think that readers need to be able to trust an author.