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But individuals are not precise mirrors of their nations. And — John Scalzi

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is. — Catherine Deneuve

Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance. — Albert Camus

Baking is too precise for me. I cook with a pinch of this or that. — Eva Longoria

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art — Dan Rather

The Mesh is about creating and managing what's perishable. It provides businesses with the ability to reach an audience of one, at a precise time. — Lisa Gansky

The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it. — Karen Marie Moning

Someone once used that precise same line on me — Jonathan Friesen

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

He held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man's pre-eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in. — George Eliot

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line — Jorge Luis Borges

The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone ... — Arthur Miller

Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene. — Nicolas Cage

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect. — Jeff VanderMeer

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. — Adam Clayton

Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication. — Steven Erikson

We need precise words for Jesus. Otherwise, Christian theology is built on a foundation of sand. — Amos Smith

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. — Franklin Pierce Adams

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things. — Richard Flanagan

Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief. — Imre Lakatos

As complexity rises, precise statements lose meaning and meaningful statements lose precision — Lotfi A. Zadeh

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work. — Michiel Huisman

At this precise moment in time, I take no pleasure in being right. — J.K. Rowling

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying. — Lewis Thomas

Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of otherness. Red is the colour of blood and danger. — Kate Williams

To be more precise it was the color of heartache. — Susanna Clarke

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about — John Von Neumann

To be precise, there are three gems for healthy life: sufficient workouts, healthy food, and enough sleep. — Girdhar Joshi

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise. — Joyce Carol Oates

Wars today seem to occur at a more precise point in time but deep down they are permanent. — Bernardo Carvalho

A girl could forget her precise location in the universe when a man looked at her with eyes like those. — Julie Anne Long

The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way. — Gaspard Ulliel

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science. — David Whyte

In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight. — Herman Melville

Between hell now, and hell later, Sassenach," he said, his speech measured and precise, "I will take later, every time. — Diana Gabaldon

There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea. — Robert Ballard

I have no problem with anyone being precise about small things. — Steven Zaillian

What a dynamic, handsome object is a path! How precise the familiar hill paths remain for our muscular consciousness! Oh, my roads and their cadence. — Gaston Bachelard

Another thread snaps loose from my heart, the pain precise and acute. I embrace it, because it reminds me I'm still here. I'm alive. I'm empowered. — A.G. Howard

I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all. — Cate Marvin

It was a circumambulation of such precise, ritualistic grief no one interfered. — Sue Monk Kidd

ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours. — Maria Callas

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all. — Henry Ward Beecher

A law of life: at the precise instant when someone tells a truth, that truth is transformed into a story — Enrique De Heriz

My nerves are neither over- nor underwrought. They are wrought to the precise degree demanded by this situation. — Courtney Milan

What is generally termed reality is, to be precise, a frothy nothing. — Hugo Ball

Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments. — Joyce Carol Oates

[On Chinese Internet,] freedom is a targeted and precise window. — Michael Anti

Bawdy in thoughts, precise in words,
Ill-natured though a whore,
Her belly is a bag of turds,
And her cunt a common shore. — John Wilmot

Sometimes, you just have to reassure the ones you love in precise language that you'll always be there. Sometimes words are enough. — Cassia Leo

Too bad relationships weren't math problems with precise answers. They were essay questions in a philosophy class, and they came down to judgement. — Lauren Blakely

Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services. — Idries Shah

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise ... — Felix Mendelssohn

In every Christian's life there comes a time when he or she needs to know the precise circumstances under which God is willing to heal the sick. — Michel Faber

She'd never realized how erotic it was to watch a man dress until this precise moment. — Nalini Singh

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague. — Garth Stein

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time. — Bertrand Russell

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought. — Henri Matisse

I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts. — Albert Einstein

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement. — William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

In religion, precise truth has almost no currency. True believers will kill and destroy to defend their inaccurate beliefs. — Glen Cook

Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully. — Jason Schwartzman

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant. — Harold Innis

Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you. — Zig Ziglar

What kind of idiot breaks all his bones at the precise moment his damsel needs him the most? — Karen Marie Moning

Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it? — Dee Hock

Good Poem

Sit,
lay down,
roll over,
here's
your treat. — Kristen Henderson

Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem. — Richard P. Feynman

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds. — Ralph Richardson

A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. — Jeanette Winterson

When you take the right stairs you will arrive at the precise destination. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning. — E.B. White

When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen. — Ernest Bramah

My father was, I suppose, a crank. He had a fine, precise mind, which ignored what it was not interested in. — L.P. Hartley

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

Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise. — Mark Lawrence

The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable. — Geneen Roth

Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm. — Margaret Wertheim

The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognizable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called into question. — Gustave Le Bon

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

I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn. — Lord Mountbatten

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens. — Marquis De Lafayette

I am very precise about what food I like. I'm very much a nursery-food person, and really hate chichi dishes. — Trinny Woodall

To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Perception of an object costs
Precise the Object's loss - — Emily Dickinson

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. — Bertrand Russell

Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship. — Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise. — Jeanette Winterson

The pauses are a precise language, more a language than actual language is, Elisabeth thinks. — Ali Smith

Getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision. — Dan Quayle

Love doesn't suit the lazy; sometimes it requires strong, precise actions. — Susanna Tamaro

On cannot be precise, and still be true. — Marc Chagall

Mum's the word." " To be precise, dumbs the word. — Herge

I am who I need to be at this precise moment; this is my journey. — Muse En Lystrala

Browning: 'Justinian's Pandects only make precise / What simply sparkled in men's eyes before'. — Michael Oakeshott

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. — Peter De Vries

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished. — James Dickey