Quotes About Precision

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

Golf is a better game played downhill.

Let's stop the startwatch.

I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it won't be as funny. You've gotta know when to deliver your punch-lines.

Ask him what time it is and he'll tell you how the watch was made.

Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.

Why do you always start after my beat then rush to catch up? Do you want us to stay behind?

Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.

Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.

... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds

I can conduct better than I count.

If you don't have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.

DeShaies is like a clock out there. Every other pitch goes one way or the other.

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.

The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.

Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.

I can't believe I've missed this sport. It's all about fingering holes and caressing balls.

Motto for latin countries: If you're not late, you're not on time

Good shot.""Not really. I was aiming for his balls.

If you want to score a goal, you have to hit the target.

Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety; it is the goal, not the starting point.