Quotes About Precise

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was a meticulous guy, right?

He went up the metal stairs as quietly as he could, reducing the likely clang to a duller pulsing boom, by placing his feet very carefully. He found 214 and knocked on its door, firmly but discreetly, like he imagined a bellboy would, in a fine hotel.

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They required three thousand Jews, the man said, and the line had apparently held 3,004.

there is always a very precise moment for words like that to be uttered; then it passes and it is too late. Just as the moment for words like sorry or I love you is a brief one, fleeting and irreplaceable; a moment of liminality, perhaps.

Thus, creating big feelings in readers requires laying a foundation on top of which readers build their own towering experience. What is that foundation? The more precise question is, what triggers readers to dredge up their own emotional experiences? One answer is this: It's the small details (reminders) used to evoke a situation that are preloaded with feeling.

Na própria precisão com que outras passagens lembradas se oferecem, de entre impressões confusas, talvez se agite a maligna astúcia da porção escura de nós mesmos, que tenta incmpreensivelmente enganar-nos, ou, pelo menos, retardar, que prescutemos qualquer verdade.

Oh, I am a prompt person!

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

I'm a big admirer of Daniel Woodrell for his beautiful, precise, sparse prose - I don't do succinct well, so I'm in awe of writers who do.

To reduce sensation to a science, to make psychological analysis into a microscopically precise method - that's the goal that occupies, like a steady thirst, the hub of my life's will.

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.

While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.

If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.

The electrodes we'd been using on salamanders couldn't be scaled up for people, but within a week Charlie invented some that would give us equally precise readings from the human head.We immediately found that the back-to-front current varied with changes in consciousness just as in salamanders. It was strongest during heightened physical or mental activity, it declined during rest, and it reversed direction in both normal sleep and anesthesia.

Terroir tests the limits of science, it is never precise, it is essentially an untellable story.

It was so - oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!

Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.

I do," said Louis. "Before I can let you play with them, I have to clean them and pump them up with the precise amount of air as specified by POOPS." "POOPS?" asked Eric Ovens. "The Professional Organization Of Playground Supervisors," explained Louis. He showed them the POOPS handbook.

I'm the kind of person who always follows the manual. No shortcuts.

The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity.

And a single green soldier was plucked from the shoe box of reservists and replacements and tossed her way, through the air. She picked him up from the sand. The mold had shaped his features precisely, a strong jaw and a sharp nose, the little combat helmet and a sash of ammunition across his chest. Unlike