#accurate

The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#beautiful #sad #beauty

Vishous, son of the Bloodletter, was not the kind of male anyone addressed like that. Except, apparently, for Wrath. In this case, the Brother with the tattoos on his face and the perverted reputation and the hand of death did exactly what he was told. He shut the fuck up. Which said volumes about Wrath. Did it not. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#bdb #lover-reborn #vishous #wrath #death

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#accurate #brilliant #exhaustive #far #far less

In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them. ↗

— Michael Behe

#accurate #anatomy #astounded #century #deliver

But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure. ↗

— Lake Bell

#america #community #depiction #how #i

Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know. ↗

— Herman Cain

#based #evidence #i #in my opinion #inaccurate

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#because #even #feel #fiction #functioning

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment. ↗

— Bill Walsh

#compliment #effective #lame #more #nothing

All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs. ↗

— John Walters

#accurate information #inaccurate #information #many #messages

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards. ↗

— William Whewell

#always #bending #cord #downwards #fine