Fine Detail Quotes

#1. Life took longer to reassemble than it did to blow apart, but that didn't mean it wouldn't be lovely, providing that one remembered to go for country walks, and to tune the wireless to music.

Chris Cleave

#2. For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

Ama Ata Aidoo

#3. For the first time since hearing about the Treaty of Versailles in detail, Mondaugen found himself crying. They'll drain his juices, he thought; caress his bones with their paw-pads, gag on his fine white hair.

Anonymous

#4. I have terrible panic attacks. I usually get so tired from crying and being in pain that my only way out is sleeping.

Soko

#5. Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met.

John Lasseter

#6. He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water, himself
dark and tiny, in fine detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there, as if her eyes
were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact.

Ray Bradbury

#7. The visionary mind takes many turns before settling on any specific path.

Jane Kirkpatrick

#8. Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and staying away from His prohibitions.

Umar

#9. Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

Richard Neal

#10. I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

Zach Gilford

#11. Forgive me," I wrote at the bottom. "I did not think I would break.

Claire North

#12. So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.

Teju Cole

#13. Books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

Gertrude Atherton

#14. I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

Sylvia Plath

#15. This was how Christians had fallen under the umbrella of being judgmental and narrow-minded. The idea that one sin could be singled out as the worst, the area God disliked most.

Karen Kingsbury

#16. And the art was in every corner and wall ... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich in detail, painted by a student of the Fine Arts Academy of Chicago named Santiago Martinez; a name to remember ...

Santiago Martinez Delgado

#17. The only constant in life is that everything is always changing.

Amanda Hocking

#18. Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.

Peter Watts

#19. Yeah. Like when someone doesn't know their vision isn't perfect. They think they can see fine. But the moment they put those glasses on for the first time, they see everything so clearly, so vivid. They realize how much detail and beauty they've been missing. That's Hetch. He's my glasses.

River Savage

#20. Oh, and I [Amy] may also have told him that I quite fancied Dr Smith [The Doctor]. Which in the 1780s was probably punishable by stoning or corsets.

James Goss

#21. I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!

America Ferrera