Top 282 Exact Quotes

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Edward Hopper
When something happens far back in the past, people often can’t recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it’s often ambiguous.
Hallie Ephron
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
Bernard DeVoto
It doesn’t matter how rich or poor you are: when you’re sick, you want the exact same thing.
Anne Wojcicki
When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see who this dancer is right now, at this exact moment in time. I live inside them in a way.
Twyla Tharp
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Kimbo Slice the man, you watch the YouTube videos of this guy in backyards, and they start fighting and you think this guy’s a thug. You think he’s a bad guy, you have this perception of him and then you meet him, it isn’t true. It’s the exact opposite. He’s a really good guy.
Dana White
It’s simply unrealistic to depend on secrecy for security in computer software. You may be able to keep the exact workings of the program out of general circulation, but can you prevent the code from being reverse-engineered by serious opponents? Probably not. The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets.
Whitfield Diffie
We don’t know what change is because we don’t know what the hell we are. If I wake up tomorrow and do the exact opposite of everything I do today, am I a changed person? Or am I simply the same person who decided to try something different?
Mark Manson
Paul Schofield said something like, ‘If I’m not acting in a play, I don’t really exist.’ Those weren’t the exact words, but he meant it’s only when I’m acting in a play that I’ve got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?
Michael Gambon
The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question.
John Bates Clark
Sometimes I think to get to the emotional level of a scene, you don’t necessarily have to have experienced the exact thing that person has experienced, but whatever you have in your life that has gotten you to that place is usually enough.
Judy Greer
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man’s restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
Ralph Steadman
Boston was incredible. I had some of the best experiences of my life there at Berklee because I met a bunch of other people who were at the exact same stage in life and interest as me. There were American and international students all wrapped up in the Berklee environment, where you basically did nothing but music 24/7.
Anat Cohen
The urge that most people feel to have kids is the exact same as the urge that I have to not have kids. I do not want to raise a child.
Jen Kirkman
There's so much PC police. There's so much, 'You can't

There’s so much PC police. There’s so much, ‘You can’t do this, you can’t do that.’ We’re the exact opposite.
Dave Portnoy
I couldn’t afford to get sick in prison. My sickle cell is no joke, so I couldn’t eat poorly or not exercise. And everything in jail is designed to do the exact opposite.
Prodigy
When you create series and products, sometimes there’s specific situations where your content is being infringed… in very rare cases, somebody produces a beat-by-beat version of your exact series, which has happened to us.
Benny Fine
I would say I’m pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I’m really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.
Callan McAuliffe
There’s no question that resting meat helps it to retain juices, though the exact degree to which it does so is up for debate. I’ve tested dozens of steaks over the years, and I’ve found significant variation.
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had been studying. I wanted to know how these amazing things would work: the Pantheon, the dome of Michelangelo, the dome of Brunelleschi. So I decided to study civil engineering.
Santiago Calatrava
Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don’t stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me.
Shirley Manson
OKCupid’s model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it’s the news or whether it’s sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.
Sam Yagan
Who on earth is going to use ‘utilize’ in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type ‘z,’ when you can say the exact same thing in three characters? I can’t think of a sentence in which ‘use’ can’t replace ‘utilize.’
Susan Orlean
It’s the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, ‘This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.’
Jake Tapper
To clear the air once and for all, I don’t have cancer. I’m not going through chemotherapy. I have alopecia. Alopecia areata, to be exact about it. I love the way that I look; I’m not worried about it.
Anthony Carrigan
I think a good story can do as much as a novel; not the exact same thing, of course, but just as much artistically. They’re different beasts, but to tackle an expansive country like the United States, you’re either going to write a big novel, or go in to various points on the map and write stories or poems.
David Means
I’m just mystified and fascinated by women, and I’m still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I’m unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn’t inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I’m getting closer.
Jeremy Piven
I grew up in Russia. I grew up in Latvia, to be exact.
Lana
You can’t make three or four spinners bowl the exact number of overs. You don’t see the number of overs bowled by them before you make a bowling change; you see who looks effective and make a bowling change.
MS Dhoni
You look for the way something is built. You see a Prada bag and you look at the stitching at the back. If it’s a fake one, then they make it really cheap. If it’s a real Prada bag and I will look at it, I will count every single stitch and make sure they are exact distance apart.
Corey Harrison
Golf is the absolute worst place for me to be because I am the exact opposite of everything that a golfer should encompass, should be, and I’m not.
Paige Spiranac
The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
Heraclitus
People always ask me if there was one thing they could do today to change the way they look and feel, what would it be. The answer is simple: Walk. To be exact, I want you to walk 10,000 steps a day.
Harley Pasternak
I wear black because I’m a large lady, and I have many exact replicas of the same black outfit.
Louise Wilson
If I had an office job, I’d probably be doing the exact same thing I’m doing on television: hanging out by the water cooler and talking to co-workers about their relationships.
Tracy McMillan
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you’re telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
Bill Cosby
It is hard knowing that maybe if I was born a man and doing the exact same thing I would have more money than sense.
Liz Cambage
It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.
Bernie Sanders
All mothers go through the exact same things.
Angie Harmon
I’ve always gone out with much younger guys. But I rushed into relationships before really getting to know the person. What would come up as a warning sign within the first two weeks of dating would usually be the exact reason the relationship would end!
Carrie Ann Inaba
I do sometimes find it interesting when I look at a lot of the pranks that are out there, and I see kids doing the exact things that I did in the ’90s. Like, I would go out on the street on crutches and fall down, and people would help me. Or I would paint my parents’ house plaid; I’ve seen that replicated.
Tom Green
For me, the fall of the Wall came at the exact right time because, I mean, I was 17, basically I hadn’t missed anything, unlike the generation of my parents, who were deprived of a lot of things. They couldn’t travel, and they couldn’t really get ahead in their professional careers. So for me, it was perfect timing.
Tom Wlaschiha
Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer are quite right to call for a Brexit that puts jobs first, and to hold ministers to account for their promise to negotiate a trade deal with the E.U. that delivers ‘the exact same benefits’ as single market membership.
Wes Streeting
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
Thomas Carlyle
‘Modern Warfare,’ ‘Black Ops,’ these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more exact, and I can’t speak for every gamer out there, but I know when I play, I feel like I’m actually in the game. It’s that intense.
Kevin Garnett
We want a system that creates the same exact sandwich,

We want a system that creates the same exact sandwich, very rapidly and very consistently, every single time.
Jimmy John Liautaud
Classically, it’s the child who looks up at their parents who says, ‘This is how the future is going to be,’ and it’s the parents who don’t understand because they’re set in their ways. For me, it was the exact opposite.
Michael Gracey