Quotes About Precise

convencida como yo de que un encuentro casual era lo menos casual en nuestras vidas, y que la gente que se da citas precisas es la misma que necesita papel rayado para escribirse o que aprieta desde abajo el tubo de dentífrico.

to be cool, decisive, precise, yes, while the barn door hits you in the face

Storms. Was that how close they'd come? "Cutting it a little tight, don't you think, son?" "A surgeon must be timely and precise." "This is timely?" Lirin said. "Well, you do hate it when people waste time," Kaladin said, grinning.

The gospel vision is precise on this point: we can't be worshiping some vague deity above the clouds; we can't be acknowledging Jesus Christ living within us and ignoring him in those around u. Two central facts of Christianity emerge - Christ is in you, and Christ is in me - and in the end, as Saint Augustine said, "there will be the one Christ loving himself.

James Salter is a consummate storyteller. His manners are precise and elegant; he has a splendid New York accent; he runs his hands through his gray hair and laughs boyishly.

To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And everything has to be precise. Because you can't forget the lyrics because the band keeps playing, you know, and you're under a certain amount of pressure.

There's something in human performance that is very smooth and very fluid, and at the same time it can be very precise, and that can take a lot of time, trial and error.

Love is pure, perfect, precise, and precious.

They should be more like what would have been sent by telegraph in days of old (when each word cost money) than prose.

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

I'm just a slow writer. I'm picky and careful and fastidious.

In a way, we tried to make 'The Salvation' a contemporary film with contemporary emotions. At the same time, in the script, you get a feel that all the small talk is not a part of our universe. It's more precise talk.

I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.

By 1928 or so, many of the mathematical formulas and rules of quantum mechanics had been put in place and, ever since, it has been used to make the most precise and successful numerical predictions in the history of science.

Great wines have flavors—whatever those flavors are—that are precise, well defined, and expressive. Imagine

The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.

You had something. What was it?" he demanded. "An alcohol-laced kiss," I said tightly. "Two, to be precise." "From who?" "From whom,I believe is the correct phrasing." "All right, from-the-fuck-whom, Ms. Lane?" Mac and Barrons

Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don't want to break them. That's how you drive in the rain.

The human lanuage, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

To be precise, the word is priority—not priorities—and it originated in the 14th century from the Latin prior, meaning "first." If something mattered the most it was a "priority.

a la hora de comprender cualquier problema clínico relacionado con el cerebro es obtener una historia precisa de las experiencias del paciente.

the DeMille films were foolishness. I was born to do this, and I can do it precisely because I thought the whole religion through when I broke away. It takes someone who knows—not believes—to capture and picture the storytelling truth about Moishe Rabenu in a film.

Which brought me back to my worry. Why had he turned up just then? Why at that precise moment? Why not the day before or after, for example? Was it just random, or was there an underlying pattern I couldn't yet see? Shakespeare, you understand, as interpreted by Henry Lytten. The greater the coincidence, the greater the importance of the hidden causation.

I do shodo magic," Dali said. "I curse through calligraphy. I have to write the curse out on a piece of paper and I can't move while I do it. One smudge, and I might kill the lot of us." Oh good. "But don't worry." Dali waved her arms. "It's so precise, it usually doesn't work at all." Better and better.