#accurate

As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#afar #battle #battles #few #fight

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#accurate #always #beautiful #being #between

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#burden #carry #go #let go #lived

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. ↗

— Ken Burns

#accurate #america #century #curiously #jazz

My predictions are notably inaccurate. ↗

— Robert Caro

#notably #predictions

Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#activities #care #comprehensive #declaration #get

A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to see if there was still any steam underneath. ↗

— Timothy Zahn

#any #first #fork #i #into

The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me...If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#intriguing #change

I’m thinking of changing my name to “Son of Manana.” Of course it isn’t accurate, because I’m the father of yesterday.
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— Jarod Kintz

#accurate #father #manana #name #thinking

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