Top 100 Quotes About Details
#1. Happiness hides in life's small details. If you're not looking, it becomes invisible.
Joyce Brothers
#2. I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.
Andrew Pyper
#4. Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#5. Having a grandmother is like having an army. This is a grandchild's ultimate privilege: knowing that someone is on your side, always, whatever the details.
Fredrik Backman
#6. What?" I asked uneasily. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
He shook his head, the smile rueful now. "Because sometimes, a person can get so caught up in the details that they miss the whole. It's not just the dress or the hair. It's YOU. You're beautiful. So beautiful, it hurts me.
Richelle Mead
#7. How comforting,' I replied, my voice and my expression steadily serious, 'to think that in these difficult times God is still concerned with the details of the housing assignments. I myself have no time to discuss them just now.
Ann Leckie
#8. Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don't worry about it. It will emerge. It will insist on being told.
Frank McCourt
#9. This is the best possible way to retain important details that you wish to remember in any unified field of knowledge, whether it be the field of economics, science, history, or any other
link them up with related items which you already know or wouldn't mind knowing.
Ralph Alfred Habas
#10. How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his technique! To just let him lead one by the hand ...
Maria Luisa Bombal
#11. All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.
Henri Matisse
#12. With every episodic, there's a learning curve where writers try to find the voice of the characters by way of the actors. Many details are found along the way. On 'Caprica,' although the franchise already existed, we were creating an entirely new world full of new characters.
Sasha Roiz
#13. A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.
Hermann Weyl
#14. The 'Star Wars' movie is coming out. Disney has kept the details of the movie under wraps because they're not Sony.
Craig Ferguson
#15. All the tiny, seemingly insignificant details upon which my world hangs.
Blake Crouch
#16. Worry, about the 'thousand and one' details entailed. My one-track mind has to be relieved of these worries completely or I cannot get started working on my paintings, or even get to sleep at night.
E. J. Hughes
#17. The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details to alter.
Graham Greene
#18. Controversies remain over the details, but today no biologist doubts that evolutionary dynamics like mutualism, kinship, and various forms of reciprocity can select for psychological faculties that, under the right circumstances, can lead people to coexist peacefully.4
Steven Pinker
#20. The moment was lost in vulgar details.
Oscar Wilde
#21. As the writer, I may choose to ignore the emotional heart of the matter, and focus on details, and trust that the heart of the matter will be conveyed nevertheless.
Lydia Davis
#22. The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.
Patricia Highsmith
#23. We are working so hard in this country on the details of school improvement that we don't always stop to consider the big picture - if we are actually working on the right things.
David Perkins
#24. Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.
Roger Scruton
#26. I find that often simple words say all that needs to be said in less time, using less energy, with all the details wanted- fully in tact. Love it.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#27. The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.
Eminem
#28. God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
Gloria Steinem
#29. What a wise person teaches is the smallest part of what they give. The totality of their life, of the way they go about it in the smallest details, is what gets transmitted.
David Brooks
#30. Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.
Kevin Drum
#31. Never try to solve the problem for the spirits by thinking about the details, but think of how you will feel when it is solved for you.
Damon Brand
#32. Don't you hate when you're having fun and you know you won't be able to appreciate the details until it's days later and you ache for the ability to be present.
Unknown
#33. ... but you cant get all hung up on details when you are trying to survive ...
Sapphire.
#34. To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of differently colored, simlarly priced objects.
Jonathan Raban
#35. I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
Jorge Luis Borges
#36. You learn what you need to kill and take care of the details. It's like changing a tire. The first time you're careful. By the thirtieth time, you can't remember where you left the lug wrench.
Ted Bundy
#37. Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.
Wallis Simpson
#38. I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.
Balthazar Getty
#39. Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.
Peter Garrett
#40. My sievelike mind didn't want to lock away dates and details; it wanted to float and meander. If I mixed all those facts and these up with a little gelatine and egg white, I wondered, would they stick together better?
Julia Child
#41. Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.
Kent Nerburn
#42. I think the biggest lesson that I take from 'Avatar' on any set that I go to is just work ethic. Working with Jim Cameron, you're used to working very, very long days and you're very meticulous about details. He's very, very picky about little details, little character-isms and things.
Laz Alonso
#43. A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
Swami Sivananda
#44. The most mundane details of life are not mundane if they're done with someone else in mind. When you're in love, everything's important.
George Bishop
#45. When a man, whether he is a leader or follower, admits that he is "too busy" to change his plans, or to give attention to any emergency, he admits his inefficiency. The successful leader must be the master of all details connected with his position.
Napoleon Hill
#46. With a keen eye for details, one truth prevails!
Gosho Aoyama
#47. It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.
Anton Seidl
#48. When you talk to an author or an artist, you're only ever getting half the story. We are crafting narratives for you. We are leaving the messy details out.
Phoebe North
#49. I used to be something of an obsessive when it came to research. When I first began writing the Thorne novels, I would drive to a set of traffic lights in the early hours of the morning to make sure you could turn left. I thought it was important to get even the most trivial details right.
Mark Billingham
#50. One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.
Edward T. Hall
#52. I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.
Jonathan Lethem
#53. One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time.
Paul Bowles
#54. Why were people always asking me about things in my past, the things I wanted to keep hidden? But then, why did my life have to be full of details I didn't want to share with others?
Sarah Holman
#55. We can't change the past, and the details of the future have yet to be seen,
Jamie Magee
#56. That's the problem with models - they only include the details people think are relevant,
Connie Willis
#57. The details of my thoughts bled into thin pieces of paper, spread across miles to touch hearts of the people; who've lost their truest homes- themselves.
Nikki Rowe
#58. So what do we need to do? (Kat)
One: Don't die. Two: Don't get bitten. (Sin)
And? (Kat)
Kick their ass. (Sin)
Good plan. Little vague on the details. (Kat)
Isn't it, though? (Sin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#59. So many details came into focus. The shape of his lips, the line of his neck. "I'm not dangerous," I breathed.
He brought his face toward mine. "You are to me."
And somehow, against all reason, we were kissing. I closed my eyes, and the world around me faded.
Richelle Mead
#60. We find common bonds in the shared details of the human journey, not in the divergent conclusions we draw from those details.
Parker J. Palmer
#61. It's awful, ins't it, how I remember crap like that? Tiny, insignificant details in the midst of a massive disaster.
Robyn Schneider
#62. For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.
Taylor Swift
#63. To live abundantly, you have to race toward the future with arms and heart wide open. You have to risk everything and let the universe take care of the details
Elaine Hussey
#64. God's reality is overwhelmingly intrusive in all the details of life.
John Piper
#65. Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.
Robert C. Solomon
#66. Who doesn't love a statement sock? I mean, we won't go in to details, but your underwear has to be bright, too.
Bubba Watson
#67. I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that the feelings that are in the original are there, much more than the details, if they are right or wrong.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#69. I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
Fawn Hall
#70. The difference between you and I Dre is that i can take a bad experience and make money off it, You just have to live with yours until time blurs your memory of the details.
Most writers i know aren't beautiful by society's standard. Writing is not modelling but Writer's do have beautiful souls.
Crystal Evans
#71. I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.
Andy Hertzfeld
#72. When you aren't sure what it is you hate or why you even hate it, it's hard to hold onto the details ... you just hold on to the feelings.
Colleen Hoover
#73. The way I prepare is through script analysts and back story. I create back story for a character based on script analysts, filling in as many details as possible. I also do a lot of research.
Katie Cassidy
#75. The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details.
Shaun Tan
#76. Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.
Ibn Khaldun
#77. Who wins at the end of the day? The self-satisfied people who heatedly debate some obscure details? Or the people who sidestep the entire debate and get started?
Ramit Sethi
#78. Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.
Marissa Mayer
#79. If only gossip weren't so titillating. Sweeney tried to control an avid desire to know more, to dig for all the dirty details.
The temptation was great. Dirt was like fat; it made life more delicious.
Linda Howard
#80. Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.
Natalie Goldberg
#81. When you are filming, you have to let the thing really open so you can bring more life and details into it and even look for some kind of imperfection. It's good to have a good script but then you must make a mess out of it, I think.
Pascal Chaumeil
#82. Youth looks good in anything; unpleasant details lose themselves against the unabating vigour of youth ...
Franz Kafka
#83. When the basic status of a theory is clear, and all that needs to be cleared are details, you can collaborate. But if the main structure of a hypothesis isn't established, and you want to change the paradigm - like it was the case in the 1960s - it's better to work alone.
Peter Higgs
#84. I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.
John Malkovich
#85. The mind of the spirit will guide you in perfect ways, even in the minute details of your life, if you will let it do so.
Charles Fillmore
#86. I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.
Charles Darwin
#87. When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.
Jodi Picoult
#88. Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes.
Sara Sheridan
#89. Estragon: Suppose we repented. Vladimir: Repented what? Estragon: Oh ... (He reflects.) We wouldn't have to go into the details. Vladimir: Our being born?
Samuel Beckett
#90. To my surprise, it was a place where my thoughts were the most lucid. I wasn't bogged down in random trivial details or the luxury of time-consuming over-analysis. This place forced you to live because at any moment, life could be lost. Ramadi forced me to die unto myself.
M.B. Dallocchio
#91. Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.
Carl Hart
#92. That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of.
Wes Anderson
#93. I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while.
Ruth Rendell
#94. Effort does matter; diligence and attention to the minutest details can save you.
Atul Gawande
#95. I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details.
Pam Gems
#96. Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.
Ernst Toller
#97. I did work at Planned Parenthood between college and grad school. For me, anywhere that I worked or anywhere that I've come to know intimately is a great place to set a story because it's a place where you know all the details already, and you don't have to make them up; you can just borrow them.
Lauren Holmes
#99. Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan of a short story, then cut it as short as possible, try to evolve all the necessary details. I know far more about the characters than what actually comes out of the writing.
Jorge Luis Borges
#100. I never understood how men could remember all those details about sports but, yet, were incapable of remembering where they set their car keys or wallet.
Tina Reber
