“Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.”
Bill Cosby
“When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.”
Craig Claiborne
“He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
“It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.”
Conrad Veidt
“We'd all like to bring them to a conclusion sooner rather than later, ... But precisely when we're going to be able to do that is anybody's guess.”
Richard Shoemaker
