Quotes of: Exacting Keyword

Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it

MaddAddam

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

John Tukey

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Francois Fenelon

Zeniba: [about Yubaba] We're identical twins and exact opposites.

Spirited Away

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Stephen Leacock

Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.

William F. Buckley Jr.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Chuck Jones

Respect is tendered with pleasure only where it is not exacted.

Turgot Collection Pocket Edition

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

George Santayana

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Frank Zappa

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Bertrand Russell

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Cesar Chavez

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Bernard DeVoto

But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

Patrice Leconte

It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.

Randy West

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

A Study in Scarlet

We are not a monolithic group of individuals, not every single person believes the exact same thing.

Joseph Crowley

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.

Paula Poundstone