Exacting Quotes

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure -- the costly, exacting mistress.

It was more exacting than Shakespeare. Every stammer was scripted.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed.

Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.

It is so much more difficult to live with one`s body than with one`s soul. One`s body is so much more exacting: what it won`t have it won`t have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature has good reason for exacting her own special sacrifices from those determined to witness them.