The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney J. Harris

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
Fred Rogers

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
Ezra Pound

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. Salinger

Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
Honore de Balzac

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
Karl Lagerfeld

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
Randy Harrison

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
Barbara Bush

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.
James Patterson

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
Bernard Meltzer

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
Stephen Sondheim

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.
Art Buchwald

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
Jack Henry Abbott

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead

Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'
George Clooney

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.
Marlon Brando

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
Milan Kundera