Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.


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STEVEN MAGEE
Most people do not realize that they are one car crash away from death.
STEVEN MAGEE
When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repet...
STEVEN KOTLER
It is a sad state of affairs in the USA that for the sick and the poor that jail offers better benef...
STEVEN MAGEE
I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parti...
STEVEN MAGEE
We're all stories, in the end.
STEVEN MOFFAT
Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.
STEVEN BRUST
When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run ...
STEVEN MOFFAT
He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been ...
STEVEN MILLHAUSER
Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transform...
STEVEN JAMES
When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that...
STEVEN HALPERN
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
STEVEN SPIELBERG
If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.
STEVEN GILBERT
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil th...
STEVEN WEINBERG
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
STEVEN WRIGHT
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
STEVEN SODERBERGH
It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to...
STEVEN SEAGAL
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
STEVEN TYLER
A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
STEVEN WRIGHT
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things...
STEVEN WEINBERG
One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it h...
STEVEN DEITZ
Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity... If you wanted to run the blender, yo...
STEVEN WRIGHT
The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.
STEVEN CHU
Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should reme...
STEVEN ROGERS
I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches.
STEVEN WRIGHT
I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine.
STEVEN WRIGHT
A people who's primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any ti...
STEVEN DEITZ
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usua...
STEVEN SPIELBERG
My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you l...
STEVEN SPIELBERG
So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It'...
STEVEN CHU
Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is on...
STEVEN PINKER