Inexactitude Quotes

#1. The politician is ... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

Edward R. Murrow

#2. Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

Winston Churchill

#4. That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.

Alexander Haig

#5. Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being

H.G.Wells

#6. Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

Scott Westerfeld

#7. fisselig (German):
Flustered to the point of incompetence. A temporary state of inexactitude and sloppiness that is elicited by another person's nagging.

Howard Rheingold

#8. I am still not a fussy eater, although I do enjoy good food.

Yves Chauvin

#9. Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another.

David Blunkett

#10. God save us from people who think they're smarter than they actually are.

Michael Cunningham

#11. She had in point of fact by now made up her mind to accept it, but she well knew that men like to think they decide matters for themselves.

W. Somerset Maugham

#12. Albert Campion: 'I'm serious!'
Lugg: 'That's unhealthy in itself.

Margery Allingham

#13. I have seen too many young writers give up because they couldn't handle the repeated failures their profession threw at them. They had talent, but they lacked determination and resilience. Marina had all three, and that's why I am certain she would have succeeded.

Marina Keegan

#14. Everyone is on the verge of insanity ... insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown.

Frederick Lenz

#15. I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing.

Neil Gaiman

#16. The country - or the government - is headed for bankruptcy. So we're going to be continuing to speak out against corporate welfare as something that hurts everybody except those direct beneficiaries.

Charles Koch