Quotes About Precise

They use the word nice not synonymously with agreeable, attractive, or pleasant—qualities they strongly favor—but in an older sense, meaning fastidiously careful, delicate, precise, or overly refined. Too much of this kind of nice looks wrong to them, like a farmer mowing hay in a tuxedo.

Poetry is language that speaks to our hearts. And I'm using the biblical word heart. I think the closest equivalent to that in 21st-century language is our imaginations. The heart, in biblical physiology, is the center of our emotions, but also of our intellect. Those two things cannot be separated. And poetic language is precise. It is detailed, it's realistic, but it is not the discursive language of mere fact.

Then we'd better stop her. Coating the hammering fear with calming ice, Roarke worked precisely. I'm not losing my wife today. I need more shagging light here.

Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my imagination. For me, it would be impossible to do a film that is so precise, that resembles real life.

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

You know when you work with animals you have to do so very carefully, species by species.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.

The receptionist was a petite Asian woman of forty who spoke English so precisely that Tuck knew it had to be her second language.

My father was, I suppose, a crank. He had a fine, precise mind which ignored what it was not interested in. Without being a misanthrope he was unsociable and non-conforming. He had his own unorthodox theories of education, one of which was that I should not be sent to school.

Conditions at Flutic are always optimum and at worst meticulous.

Every writer has only one story to tell, and he has to find a way of telling it until the meaning becomes clearer and clearer, until the story becomes at once more narrow and larger, more and more precise, more and more reverberating.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

I'm a neat freak.

Spencer is nearly as much of a neat freak as me!

I'm a very neat person.

I'm a bit of a neat freak.

Omit needless words.

It also noted that the test for reasonableness … "is not capable of precise definition or mechanical application," and therefore the test's "proper application requires careful attention to the facts and circumstances of each particular case.

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In 1989 the search for these ripples was intensified when NASA launched the $200 million satellite aptly called COBE for Cosmic Background Explorer. Carrying extremely sensitive instruments, COBE was able to see whether or not these ripples actually existed in the background radiation and how precise they were.

If I've learned anything from two decades of fantastique writing it's that the more extraordinary the subject matter the more specific the details need to be.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.