Roger Ebert Quotes

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.

I like to think of myself as detail-oriented.

Quarterback - it's a boring, monotonous position that revolves around consistency.

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

Hit the nail on the head.

Wikipedia, eh? Must be accurate then.

Always dress to what is accurate to who and what you are.

We certainly have to improve on our performances especially up front. It's not that the strikers are not in form, as all four of them are; they just have to be more accurate.

If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks.

I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.

I think if you look back at my projections and my prognostications, they turn out to be very, very accurate.

The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink.

You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.

Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique

Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did a great deal of research in both of those arenas.

"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.