Quotes About Fine Details

#1. Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next sentence to land. This is why we read, crave, need, can't live without short stories.

Tea Obreht

#2. When I perform, I usually wear wigs because I love them.

Rita Ora

#3. Did he eat the other cats at the pet shop? He's huge!

Yori

#4. For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

Aimee Mann

#5. Life has few things you could be grateful for, such as Reunions.

Emna Mizouni

#6. The whole surface of her body was covered with a coat of fine sand, which hid the details and brought out the feminine lines; she seemed a statue gilded with sand.

Kobo Abe

#7. Live long enough and nothing is news. 'The News' is
'the new things.' That's fine, until a hundred years go by and you realise there are no new things, only deep structures and cycles that repeat themselves through different period details.

Glen Duncan

#8. When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.

Alexander Skarsgard

#9. Nova shrugged, looking as if she had personally invented shrugging and hadn't quite sorted out the fine details yet.

Philip Reeve

#10. In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim ... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. You don't need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.

Anna Godbersen

#12. A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.

Radclyffe Hall

#13. Whoever coined the phrase '"I can work well under pressure" should be put on trial for crimes against Humanity.

Adriano Bulla

#14. Any rats around?" asked Gregor. "Just the one on my back," said Ares.

Suzanne Collins

#15. It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.

J. Willard Marriott

#16. She's not dead, Henry kept telling himself. But her life, all lives, seemed tenuous when he saw how quickly, with what ease, all the trappings, all the fine details of a lifetime could be packed and scattered, or junked.

Ian McEwan

#17. The earl smiled at her, a buccaneer's smile if ever she saw one.

Grace Burrowes

#18. I care deeply about all the fine details," she said, "only actually, I don't. Sum it up.

James S.A. Corey

#19. I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody

Tupac Shakur

#20. I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

Marcus Samuelsson

#21. I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!

Samuel Rogers

#22. As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.

Marianne Williamson

#23. Admittedly, I dressed up for the occasion again - I never said I wasn't fucked up.

Nina G. Jones

#24. One of the greatest hinderances of abiding in God is the lack of ability to say NO to people and opportunities

Mike Bickle