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Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it. — Daniel Radcliffe

You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours. — William Hurt

Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing. — Arthur Currie

A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction. — John Dewey

How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.42 — Chris Hedges

There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains. — Salman Rushdie

Niklas Zennstroem has a thorough background as a successful entrepreneur with extensive expertise in areas such as IT and online. — Stefan Persson

Would-be terrorists cannot so much as board a plane without a thorough screening, yet we give them nearly unfettered access to very dangerous weapons. — George Takei

I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself. — Benjamin Harrison

Shred all that, then take the pieces to the incinerator at the end of the hall for burning. I like to be thorough. — Rachel Caine

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. — Benjamin Graham

I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly. — Freema Agyeman

Life was a hard teacher, but a thorough one. — Karen Hawkins

It takes a thorough knowledge of the English language to effectively abuse it. — Charlene Vermeulen

As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway. — Gerhard Schroder

Preparing for your journey in the most thorough way possible will not diminish your experiences abroad. It will enhance them. — Bailey Richert

I am a very thorough person. — Eckhard Pfeiffer

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him. — Augustus William Hare

A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership — Aron Nimzowitsch

In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year. — Karl Kraus

William "Boss" Tweed was in such thorough control in New York that he made money off of the report the committee printed after investigating him. — H.W. Brands

There's only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation. — Andrew Loomis

An in-depth study of the true reason for greatness of nations, will always lead a thorough researcher to the factor of virtues and values — Sunday Adelaja

When I fuck you, Mr. Day, it will not be briefly. It will be long and hard and extremely thorough. I'm going to take pains with you. — K.J. Charles

There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation. — John Ruskin

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m — John Lennon

Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning. — Plautus

A thorough inspection of the birthday suit revealed a number of holes. — Les Coleman

Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental. — Lucille Kallen

Before you can achieve success in the higher and broader sense you must gain such thorough control over yourself that you will be a person of poise. — Napoleon Hill

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
[Lat., Paupertas ... omnes artes perdocet.] — Plautus

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London. — Charles Kingsley

The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Even the most thorough change happens once choice at a time — Charles Eisenstein

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. — Theodore Roosevelt

Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening. — Hakuin Ekaku

A book is an experiment, and as with all experiments, there is a sense of uncertainty about how it will turn out. — Jerome Groopman

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle.

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us. — Arthur C. Nielsen

He might know things Meg wanted to learn, but he would never be as thorough about cleaning the salt and butter off her hands after movie night. — Anne Bishop

Experience is a thorough teacher ... — Mary Jane Holmes

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil. — Henry Crew

I am a frighteningly thorough person. — Daniel Radcliffe

There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide. — George Sand

The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck. — Larry Merchant

'Marbles' really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it feel satisfying. — Ellen Forney

Adversity is an effective, thorough and highly personalized teacher. — Ralph Marston

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same. — Arthur Erickson

John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. — Gary Kleck

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine. — William Feather

We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach. — Ken Starr

The way that I work is very specific, very thorough, and the process has to be totally clear. — Lynn Collins

Our lips met, and if this kiss wasn't as ... thorough as the first one, it felt bigger somehow. More important. — Rachel Hawkins

In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis. — Justus Von Liebig

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. — George Washington Carver

Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world. — J.C. Ryle

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough. — Russell Brand

It was wild. Abandoned. Rough. Wet. Intense. Fiery. Thorough. Exquisite. Heart-pounding. Blood-singing. Soul-rocking. Life-altering.
Luscious. — Kristen Ashley

Adventure is the best way to feel the reality thoroughly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I've found that lifting the lid with your foot is the most thorough and least gross path to two minutes of peace of mind. — Elle Lothlorien

English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though. — Anonymous

The authority that God has given you over Satan is ample, wide-ranging, thorough, all embracing — Pedro Okoro

Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Mr Humphry Davy is a lively and talented man, and a thorough chemist ... — Joseph Banks

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract. — Morris Kline

The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. — John Locke

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania ... — Agnes Repplier

Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems. — Margaret Sanger

To the connoisseur of scenes, nothing is more enjoyable than a thorough, melodramatic, egoistic humility. — Sinclair Lewis

For a thorough use of ice cream cones, buy two; eat one and drop the other. — Claes Oldenburg

Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere, — William Shakespeare

Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life. — Mahatma Gandhi

Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book. — Clifford Stoll

The only thing in which I have been actually thorough has been in being thoroughly unprepared. Alfred Stieglitz — Anonymous

Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut. — Art Garfunkel

Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor. — Jim Butcher

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail. — Dieter Rams

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable. — William E. Gladstone

I have a thorough understanding of nutrition, and I feed my body only foods that support health. — Louise Hay

Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. — George Berkeley

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there."---The Princess of Intuition — Virginia Burden

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in a book that's by someone else. — Curtis Sittenfeld