Precise Quotes

There is nothing normal about removing the FBI director, as a general matter. It's an extraordinary measure. This is an office that is typically served for a term of years, 10 years, to be precise.

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

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

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

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

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

The thing about film is it is a very precise form. You know if you have it and you know if you don't have it. There's not really a middle bit where you're like, "I think we kind of have that scene."

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good on guitar.

I would like to find a more precise way to not only tell the stories of female characters, but also do so in a female "way." My biggest advice would be to trust yourself.

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.

The precise statement of any problem is the most important step in its solution.

It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.

No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

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.

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

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

We need to be more precise in how we talk about these issues. People around the word follow our presidential campaigns so closely, trying to get hints about what we will do.

Even if things look very precise and very organized, chaos is always there. But I like the moment of chaos to be at the beginning. I cannot deal with the chaos at the end.

Photography has clarity in the same way that language has. A word is precise, but its meaning can change based on the words around it: think tank, tank top.

With each draft, the work gets better, and usually that means tighter. It means getting the precise word, not the approximate word.

I'm a practicing psychiatrist and I think that I really believe in the advances of psychiatry. Our diagnoses are more precise.

I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me. Instead of giving marks to the actors I like to give marks to the camera.

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

we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death

The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.

When do these three days expire?" "That's what pisses me off. I don't know. He was annoyingly vague." "The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.

As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

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

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

I try to simplify things for the children. For instance, [I arrange] for them to have almost no dialogue, or to somehow give them very precise indications, because usually they ask for that.

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.

If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?

Aaron Sorkin very sticky about using precise language. It's in his contract: you have to use what he writes!

When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.

The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

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

Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.

America is the strongest empire ever, with the largest military. We spend ten times what the Russians do. And they have equal nuclear ability as we do, because they're precise.

I am super-Italian, not even European - Italian. And this is very precise. It's like houses. Over time they stabilize themselves in the terrain. I am still at the first step of a long staircase.

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

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

A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.

Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else.

I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways

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

Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.