Top 100 Details Details Details Quotes
#2. I think you've all heard my story about my daughter and how we felt Children's Hospital saved her life when she was less than a year old. I won't go through all of the details of that.
Jack Nicklaus
#3. Peter used to say that an artist's job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.
Chuck Palahniuk
#4. Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#5. I always spend too much time on getting the details right. That's the problem with computers. They make it possible to change too much of the music after it's been recorded.
Hans-Peter Lindstrom
#6. I think when you are doing a song you're trying to give people enough details that they connect.
Craig Finn
#7. We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.
Rebecca Harding Davis
#8. Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.
Jon Heder
#9. I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
Victoria Beckham
#10. Remember that often we will not know the small details of our life mission
Sunday Adelaja
#11. A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
Sabine Lisicki
#12. When we imagine future circumstances, we fill in details that won't really come to pass and leave out details that will. When we imagine future feelings, we find it impossible to ignore what we are feeling now and impossible to recognize how we will think about the things that happen later.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#13. God is in the details, said the architect Ludwig mies van der Rohe.
Robert C. Martin
#14. As the installments in the 'Immortals After Dark' series span simultaneous timelines, making sure the details remained accurate was a hair-raising/losing exercise.
Kresley Cole
#15. It comes to him that maybe love is always this way, a long-shot gamble: a bet against the odds that some intangible connection--even one so strange as this--will outweigh all the details and triviality of the world that drive people apart.
Matthew Flaming
#16. This ensures that when I'm bogged down with day-to-day bureaucracy and details, I don't lose sight of what I really want.
Sophia Amoruso
#17. Bran's lips part. I glimpse his tongue and a slightly crooked incisor. These little details, I can't stop gathering them like a kid seeking fistfuls of dandelions.
Lia Riley
#18. So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different
Rohinton Mistry
#19. Details can change or go missing entirely, particularly in moments of physical peril. A kind of amnesia goes hand in hand with sickness, and a good thing, too.
David Rakoff
#20. If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.
Charles Stanley
#21. The pictures come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worthwhile picture I paint it I do over the picture several times in my mind and when I am ready to paint it I have all the details I need.
Horace Pippin
#22. I don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.
Trent Lott
#23. One of the great bonuses of being a film actor is that I get to go to different places, meet inspiring people and learn different things. So all those details add up.
Nicolas Cage
#24. The value of your life is in all the unexceptional details.
Carol Mason
#25. During improvisations, I'll hear people bringing back up details from something I heard about at breakfast or something somebody was saying that they were thinking about, and it informs a rewriting of a scene.
Joe Swanberg
#26. I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.
Julian Fellowes
#27. You can't prepare for the details of every single possible thing that might come your way in the future, because the future is uncertain.
Auliq Ice
#28. Details, when they are successful, are not mere decoration. They do not distract or entertain. They lead to an understanding of the whole of which they are an inherent part.
Peter Zumthor
#29. Each distinct cipher can be considered in terms of a general encrypting method, known as the algorithm, and a key, which specifies the exact details of a particular encryption.
Simon Singh
#30. I think if you want to make a good sports movie, you've got to cut down on the sports. You have to make it about people. You can't try to impress people with your knowledge and the X and O's and all the details and the technicalities.
Kevin Costner
#31. When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.
Iggy Pop
#32. In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
Virginia Woolf
#33. President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1:00 CST today, here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound to the brain. I have no other details regarding the assassination of the president.
Malcolm Kilduff
#35. If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.
Tamora Pierce
#36. I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.
Brooke Langton
#37. It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.
Henri Poincare
#38. Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a logical way of arguing.
Ann Coulter
#39. History was an artist, maintaining the idea but changing the details, like a composer keeping the same theme but dulling it to a minor or lifting by an octave, now crooning it with violins, now blaring it on trumpets.
George R. Stewart
#40. Never let the details take over the story; let the story dictate what details to use.
Krista D. Ball
#41. Did you guys have sex?" Jacob grasped my shoulders, giving me a little shake. "Oh my God, girl, details - I need details. What is the size of his-?" "We didn't have sex." I smacked his hands away.
J. Lynn
#42. The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline
it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#43. Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.
Melissa Bank
#44. How many writers are there ... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
John Henry Newman
#45. I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details.
Julius Lester
#46. If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can stop running around. Your mind will become calm. If your mind becomes calm, You can think in front of a tiger. If you can think in front of a tiger, You will surely succeed.
Mencius
#47. Drunk on research, exhilarated by arcane details
Sheridan Hay
#48. I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply meaning to the hidden details.
Anthony Browne
#49. The old buzzard told me his life's story. I only remember that it was interesting and unusual; I've forgotten all the details.
Hermann Hesse
#50. A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don't really know what the final result will be before you have it.
May-Britt Moser
#51. There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.
Irwin Redlener
#52. Here, in my dreams, we love whom we love,
blinded not by the color of their skin,
worried not by the details of their gender,
nor about the book in which they find their god.
Sarah Tregay
#53. I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.
Cobi Jones
#54. I'm always trying to figure out what's really going on. Always having to fill in the gaps, but never getting all the details. It's like trying to do a jigsaw when I don't even know what the picture is, and I'm missing one of the vital middle pieces.
Chrissie Perry
#55. I don't know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details.
Robert James Thomson
#56. We must be convinced that abundance is the natural state of the Universe. To experience and accept abundance in our life, we must be convinced that as we conceive and believe, the Universe handles the details.
Ernest Holmes
#57. Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
Dani Shapiro
#58. Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on the other hand, study them with the care and attention to detail one might give to a difficult scientific paper or a complicated poem.
Howard S. Becker
#60. Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.
Robin Hobb
#61. We didn't try to talk. We really didn't need to. Later we would hear from one another all the details of the four miserable days of separation. For now it was enough just to be together again.
Janette Oke
#62. How am I coping? I miss George and the goddamn world is still full of zombies, that's how. Everything else ...
Everything else is just details. And those don't really matter to me anymore.
Mira Grant
#63. God will continually reveal new details of your dream to you.
Sunday Adelaja
#64. I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
Karen Thompson Walker
#65. When Lytle was born, the Wright Brothers had not yet achieved a working design. When he died, Voyager 2 was exiting the solar system. What does one do with the coexistence of those details in a lifetime's view? It weighed on him.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
#66. Maybe if I had to boil it down to one easy sentence, it would be this: I believe in evolution, and I believe in God. I just haven't worked out the details yet.
Robin Brande
#67. US Energy Information Agency announced the availability of a new mapping tool that details the flood risk faced by our existing energy infrastructure. The map has icons located on sites like distribution terminals and power plants and allows users to overlay the existing flood risk on those sites.
Anonymous
#68. So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you're always busy/moving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. Still, but when it moves, lands shift and earth quakes.
Joseph Cook
#69. He had no tolerance for acts of betrayal or cruelty and lacked Angelo's taste for the minute details of a business deal. He was a man totally in the moment, who knew only to respond to the action with an action. He was a pure gangster.
Lorenzo Carcaterra
#70. If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.
Mahatma Gandhi
#72. I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
Halsey
#73. Because my life is empty window of nothingness punctuated by meaningless details of totally mundane non-events.
M. Beth Bloom
#74. On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.
Rami Malek
#75. I'm fussy. I'm stubborn. I want all the little details and I don't want to look like anyone else - that to me is very important.
Goldie
#76. If you're still wondering about details - how am I going to get these two to meet, or whatever - when you're writing, you can't pay proper attention to the sentences themselves.
John Irving
#77. I wanted moments like this to last forever. If it couldn't, I wanted to play it on repeat so I wouldn't forget the details of every second.
Megan Duke
#79. Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.
Pat Metheny
#80. Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.
John Tuzo Wilson
#81. As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel.
Tiffany Madison
#82. The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
Ruth Rendell
#83. I've worked hard to remember it ... The problem is I'm not sure what's real memory and what's my brain filling in details, like a guy whose heart stops and he thinks he sees a bright light. Except I'm sure of my bright light.
Phil Klay
#84. To extract major truths from minor details is an artist's job.
Marty Rubin
#85. I didn't tell him that it was all stored as binary information on rapidly spinning shiny discs, partly because I'd have to look up the details myself, but mostly because by the time he'd understood the technology it would have been replaced by something else.
Ben Aaronovitch
#86. The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss around them and so on.
Kumi Naidoo
#87. Details" is the beauty of this life.
Yahya
#88. I can never bring you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#89. Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#90. The details of how faith works in spiritual warfare are well known but easily forgotten.
Edward T. Welch
#91. My style is cinematic; it is a touch of French woman of the '60s and American hippie with a Brooklyn edge. I love wearing wide-brim hats, newsboy caps, mini dresses and sheer blouses with details.
Wynter Gordon
#92. I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
Banksy
#93. You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story.
Sara Sheridan
#94. The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being said by someone in a bus. We only record details, small fragments of the world.
Marc Riboud
#95. Those who are troubled by our existing programs are not interested in a repeat of 9/11, and those who defend these programs are not dismissive of civil liberties. The challenge is getting the details right, and that's not simple.
Barack Obama
#96. One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
Oscar Wilde
#97. Visualize a place that you really love, be there, see the details. Now write about it.
Natalie Goldberg
#98. Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.
Meg Rosoff
#99. I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.
Arthur Smith
#100. In German. I'm more sensitized to the details, to the emotions. In English, I wouldn't detect as much nuance.
Michael Haneke
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