With each draft, the work gets better, and usually that means tighter. It means getting the precise word, not the approximate word.
Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.
A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because. . . I've done this. I've ordered these kinds of actions - I don't care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die.
Mads Mikkelsen’s acting is very subtle, precise, nuanced, so he brings something completely different to the character. If you compare Mads’ Hannibal to Anthony Hopkins’ for example. Not to mention that Mads Mikkelsen is very handsome and sexy, so he brings that to the character as well.
Maybelline's Precise Ink Pen Liner is by far the easiest liquid eyeliner I've ever used. I'm really bad at applying liquid liner and it glides on so nicely and actually stays on all day.
Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.
When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a little funny for using big words in a dead language - or in the kind of horticultural Esperanto that botanical names make up.
The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.
It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses -- the precise place where you would expect to see the least.
It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.
I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem--as I calculate it, of course--and I expect my husband Steve to apologize for his share, also as I calculate it. Since we're not always of one mind on the math, it can lead to the theater of the absurd.
True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear
Evolution. . . is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved. . . . The precise theory has never been proved at all. However, like relativity, it is accepted on faith. . . . On getting down to actual details, difficulties begin.
In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.
A writer's job is not complete without attention to precision. What you're trying to be precise about is your relationship to the observed thing. And "observed thing" could include remembered thing, fantasized thing, fictionalized thing, recorded thing, trans-altered thing. It's the model that's in front of you or in your brain or your memory or whatever. So you're trying to be precise about what it is you're seeing because it's very unlikely that you're going to be able to depict it as it is.
I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.
I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.
The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here
It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth. " So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to whether we are dealing with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition or a scientific theory. "Religious truth" conveys nothing clear to me at all.