Thomas R. Marshall Quotes

I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type.

Thomas R. Marshall

• Sensibility
• Accuracy
• Pretense

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• A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Racing
  • Clients
  • Accuracy

• I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.

  

  Jack Brickhouse
  • You
  • Integrity
  • Accuracy

• My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Me
  • Writers
  • Sensibility

• When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Saving
  • Improving
  • Pretense

• Mainly, when I ran into Emmylou Harris, that was it, you know? We could finish each other's sentences musically, and personally, too. We have a very shared, similar sensibility. And that was a friendship that really opened up a tremendous number of musical doors for me.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Up
  • Friendship
  • Finish

• An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Up
  • Artist
  • Criticism

• All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Listening
  • Actor
  • Accuracy

• Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Book

• There's going to be games like that, games that are going to be up there (offensively), especially with the accuracy on three-pointers that they did tonight.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Up
  • Games
  • Tonight

• I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Man
  • Sensibility
  • Self-respect

• Goodbye Pete Willis, hello Phil Collen. We decided to try to do something that no other rock band had tried before - blueprint "Sgt. Pepper". A period in time when we allowed our Pop sensibility to come to the fore ... and guess what? Our first major success...huge in the U.S. ... but nowhere else ..

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Success
  • Decided
  • Sensibility

• A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Creature
  • Sensibility
  • Physiology

• Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Culture
  • Sensibility
  • Elitism

• D.C. is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. I am, though, in love with a city that cannot fully love me back.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Love
  • City
  • Style

• I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.

  

  Charles Busch
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Book

• Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.

  

  Dean Williams
  • Confidence
  • Same
  • Amount

• Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is of course a truly volatile issue in teaching memoir or the personal essay, because there's no pretense that the narrator is a character.

  

  Debra Monroe
  • Personal
  • Dilemma
  • Pretense

• Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.

  

  Wyatt Earp
  • Time
  • Fighting
  • Needs

• All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but his own sensibilities for what he painted and how he painted it.

  

  Ernst Gombrich
  • Artist
  • Balanced
  • Sensibility

• You really have so little choice - so little to decide. You get put through the machine and it chops you up and spits you out. Your life, it's all mechanical, of the machine, until you have free will. You can't be accepted into the Work until you have matured -- freed yourself and take responsibility for your life, become accountable for your every action. It's not just from coming to a school. It's an active process - you have to take the responsibility for yourself. When you're trapped in the machine, it doesn't matter what you do.

  

  E.J.Gold
  • School
  • Responsibility
  • Choices

• Historically, NBCUniversal had brilliant people, but some of them didn't do a very good job of working together.

  

  Steve Burke
  • People
  • Together
  • Working

• Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going to be rough.

  

  Adam Hills
  • Coffee
  • Prison
  • Rough

• I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type.

  

  Thomas R. Marshall
  • Sensibility
  • Accuracy
  • Pretense