(1285 quotes found)
“You can not define being exactly on time.”
W. Edwards Deming
“Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form?”
Giacomo Puccini
“In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling.”
William S. Burroughs
“The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.”
“Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.”
Pearl S. Buck
“When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.”
Larry Bird
“To Victoria Beckham: So why exactly do they call you Posh?”
Naomi Campbell
“At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon.”
Federico Garcia Lorca
“The conditions you need to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same conditions you need to be a good sculptor. You must have a very good connection, in both professions, with time and space.”
Eduardo Chillida
“It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated”
John Dewey
