Quotes About Precise

It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of contradiction.

He was a thin, elegant-looking man with precise symmetrical features and the hushed, disapproving manner of a senior librarian.

It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.

When I approach my mixtapes I'm very calculated.

I have to stop and think about everything I do. I'm very calculated in a lot of ways.

My life is pretty calculated.

You watch Silva, and he almost never gives the ball away. He is always looking, thinking, making the right calls.

I can't be careless with the ball.

I have to chose my words carefully.

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.

It's possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things-- a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring-- with immense, even startling power. It is possible to write a line of seemingly innocuous dialogue and have it send a chill along the reader's spine-- the source of artistic delight, as Nabokov would have it. That's the kind of writing that most interests me.

Gin, dissi io. Capito tutto. La gente per bene non beve gin. La gente per bene non beve niente, precisò la vecchia.

Peccato che non avessero niente di più preciso da esporre, come ad esempio un cartello con la scritta : RALLENTARE! PAZZO IN CORSO.

Weet je wat het is - de natuur is heel precies, het doet precies zoveel pijn als het waard is, dus beleef je in zekere zin, denk ik, genoegen aan de pijn. Als het er niet toe deed, zou het er niet toe doen.

There is also a widespread assumption that the Bible is supposed to provide us with role models and give us precise moral teaching, but this was not the intention of the biblical authors. The Eden story is certainly not a morality tale; like any paradise myth, it is an imaginary account of the infancy of the human race.

You can get 5 million million atoms on the head of a pin", it said. Atoms are dangerous enough – they are what makes the atomic bomb so powerful. So why store them on top of a dangerous sharp object like a pin? They're asking for trouble.

A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

A conviction is in the nature of a verdict and judgment, and therefore it must be precise and certain.

Oh my…!Love can be troubled somber, mournful and yet subtle and precise. Love is a chaotic thing, my dear!

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.

Secret 7591.42.21. Avoiding weasel words in your intelligence analysis isn't easy when your intelligence analysis is about weasels.