Quotes About Exactness

punctiliousness—in

L'éxactitude est la politesse des rois" (Punctuality is the good manners of kings). That

Ah! se a gente pudesse se organizar com o equilíbrio das estrelas tão exatas nas suas constelações. Mas parece que a graça está na meia-luz. Na ambiguidade. E até as estrelas, pobrezinhas, equilibradas mas tremendo tanto na solidão.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

I know what I want is impossible. If I can make my language flat enough, exact enough, if I can rinse each sentence clean enough, like washing a stone over and over again in river water, if I can find the right perch or crevice from which to record everything, if I can give myself enough white space, maybe I could do it. I could tell you this story while walking out of this story. I could—it all could—just disappear.

fussiness, and his

The misconception that bothers me the most is the notion of madness," Pettit said. "It devalues him as a great artist. He was so hard working, so dedicated, so exacting, but some rather believe he had to be insane to write about insane characters. It's the opposite. You have to be in complete command of your art to depict that so effectively.

Whelan was in the position he was, exactly

It is a common saying that a letter is a dead messenger; for it can give no more than it hath. And no letter is written so exactly, that there is nothing lacking.

we are all driven by the urge to meet our needs. What if one of our most fundamental needs is to have things be just so?

just them by themselves Mark apparently thought that simply writing "Jesus took Peter and James and John" would leave open the possibility that others joined them, so he clarifies that the four were "just them by themselves." Generally we must take care not to attribute more exactness to a Gospel text than is strictly required. For example, if the evangelist gives a list, we are not justified in inferring that the list is exhaustive.

Exactness of intention produces elegance of style.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Six feet six inches. Dead even.