History provides no precise guidelines.
I am interested in marginality, in immaturity, in naïveté, in illusion, in fictions, in transitions, in the fact that at a certain moment in life there is no limit. I would like my photography to pose a question rather than make a precise statement.
The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.
You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.
Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.
It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.
I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.
The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.
As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three or six months. When you think about it, it's so intense.
Even though we still don't know any precise details, we're already making it clear that some proposals like a border tax or "buy-American" regulations are heading in a protectionist direction. The Americans' sudden proposal to classify certain steel products as national security-related is also something that we find highly problematic.
It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.
The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.
Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, "How are you, you old scoundrel!" clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.
Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes you like,is as foolish as the notion, if anyone has such a notion, that you can make houses any shapes you like. You can't, unless you live all by yourself on a desert island.
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.