#precise

I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#course #depicting #get #ground #i

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#cannot #central #criterion #first #know

We're trying to be very careful and precise in our use of language, because I think the language we use and the images we project really do have resonance. It's the reason why I don't use the term jihadist to refer to terrorists. It gives them the religious legitimacy they so desperately seek, but I ain't gonna give it to them. ↗

— John O. Brennan

#careful #desperately #give #gives #gonna

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love. ↗

— Shuler Hensley

#film #first #first love #i #i love

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#architect #arouses #make #man #more

The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#engineering #heel #human #itself #little

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend. ↗

— Criss Jami

#clever #comprehend #comprehension #content #contentment

Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#colored #die #everywhere #four #going

In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#hire #hired #interest #money #often

The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened. ↗

— Stephen M. Walt

#deterrent #fact #feel #kind #makes