Quotes About Precise

You said he was a soldier. You don't suppose...? Oh, Gods. Ignata blinked. You think something could be wrong down there? All of them looked at William, who chose this precise moment to slide the wet shirt back on his back, which required him to flex, raising his arms. That would be a shame, Cerise murmured.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.

We have little choice but to place a certain level of trust in scientists - even when it comes to the model-driven speculative discipline of climate change. And, need it be said, most scientists take great care in being honest, principled and precise.

I'm fussy. I'm stubborn. I want all the little details and I don't want to look like anyone else - that to me is very important.

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

The cruel bitterness of the drink drew claws down Khaster's throat. He craved that feeling. It was as if a creature were captive in his brain, punching his skull, trying to get out. But he did not fall as his companion had suggested. The Red Witch cleared his sight. Every sense felt honed, alert, precise.

I was sleeping on the bodies of killed German soldiers. The Germans were very orderly people. When they found they didn't have time to bury these bodies, they laid them next to each other in a very neat and orderly way. I saw straight rows, like pieces of cordwood. Exact.

I'm kind of a neat freak. My place is really organized. My socks are even organized: colors and sizes.

the authors of the CIA manual, that effective torture was not sadism but science. "The precise pain in the precise place, in the precise amount" was his motto.

We are acting by the letter; and 'the letter killeth.

We shall tell it at length, in precise and thorough detail - for when was a story short on diversion or long on boredom simply because of the time and space required for the telling?

Y quiso el destino que en ese preciso instante entrara Tadzio por la puerta de cristales.

We were probably not as lighthearted as Clooney and Sandra Bullock. We didn't tell too many jokes when people were in some position of jeopardy outside the spacecraft, but I think that's the humanity coming through in the characters. This movie gave great clarity to looking down and seeing the features of Earth ... but there weren't enough clouds, and maybe there was too precise a delineation from space.

Precisely—the bodies were a mirror image of some savage set of experiences that were central to the evolution of our man's mind.

He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet.

I'm somewhat of a perfectionist.

The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up.

'Crimson' is written in a very particular style, and it's very precise in the way it graduates into a gothic romance. The souls that will connect with it will connect deeply.

We can, however, assess regularities by running precise and thorough experiments on how people react under certain conditions, and keep a tally of what we see.

focusing, rather, on the precise and vivid events that easily come to our minds.

And the role of such formal knowledge will be overappreciated precisely because it is highly visible.

Sniper is now precisely where some Polity AI wants him and, that being so, some sort of shit is about to hit the fan, because no AI will employ Sniper if a talent for diplomacy or advanced macramé is required.

We could have been called reapers, Goddard said, but our founders saw fit to call us scythes - because we are the weapons in mankind's immortal hand. You are a fine weapon, Rowan, sharp, and precise. And when you strike, you are glorious to behold.