Top Precise Quotes
Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.
Rita Dove
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
Peter De Vries
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
Kenneth Tynan
History provides no precise guidelines.
Douglas Hurd
Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
Ezra Pound
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Henry Ward Beecher 
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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.
Rita Dove 
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Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
Peter De Vries
58% of people like this quote
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
Kenneth Tynan
58% of people like this quote
Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
Ezra Pound
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Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.
Nassau William Senior
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I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
Bertrand Russell
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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
John B. S. Haldane
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
Henry Ward Beecher
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To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.
James Dickey
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Bertrand RussellHenry Ward BeecherEric HofferJohn RuskinTheodor AdornoCatherine DeneuveDonald RumsfeldGustave FlaubertEzra PoundRita DoveArthur MillerRoy H. WilliamsCharles BabbagePeter De VriesAhmed Ben Bella
Michael NesmithSeth LloydFriedrich August von HayekLord MountbattenWalter PaterDouglas HurdJason SchwartzmanK. Eric DrexlerNiklaus WirthRaymond QueneauBen BradleeJohn B. S. HaldaneAndrew Coyle BradleyJames DickeyAdolf Loos
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