Precise Quotes

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

Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others

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

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

To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.

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

History provides no precise guidelines.

The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial and impersonal as the law of gravity is. It is precise and it is exact

Ah, grief makes us precise!

[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance.

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

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

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

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

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

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

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

To be more precise it was the color of heartache.

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