#exactly

Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#answering #back #being #call #child

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#exactly #hammer #handled #how #idea

But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were. ↗

— Peter Scott

#american way #area #complete #doing #exactly

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#definite #does #exactly #exist #function

What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#audience #british #distinct #early #else

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#basis #exactly #exist #lying #only

Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

#cake #eaten #exactly #had #i

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#even #exactly #i #like #me

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#being #exactly #great #great advantage #knows

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful. ↗

— Ice Cube

#doing #exactly #go #having #own