Quotes of: Exacting Keyword

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Franklin Pierce Adams

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.

Delia Smith

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Julian Barnes

English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning.

An Italian Affair

None of us start out strong ... And none of us have the exact same strengths.

The Rogue Knight

Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.

Mornings in Jenin

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

Mostly Sally

MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.

New Year's Thieve

The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.

The Library of Babel

Your attitudes reflect back your exact possibilities.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.

Tell Me When I'm Dead

I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.

Once Was Lost

It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

The Old Man and the Sea

Between an action and reaction, between a gesture and its consequences, everybody agrees that there is an exact relationship, but not necessarily a proportionate one.

The Parrots

I am the Vending Machine of Love. Exact change only. The price is 33.3 cents.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Pliny the Elder

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

Rene Daumal

If you saw me every day, you would actually think I am wearing the exact same gray suit.

Thom Browne

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing, but a compromise- that which is common to you, me, and everybody.

Thomas Hulme

In the morning, that moment, when I knew it was you. When I could feel you breathing and we opened our eyes at the exact same time.

Kate Chisman