Details Quotes · Page 15

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us…

— Ovid

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

— Anonymous

Even when the nation's leaders acknowledge tech issues, details are lacking.

— Brianna Wu

I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits.…

— Philippe Petit

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

— Abraham Lincoln

In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal.

— Enrique Penalosa

Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

— John Wooden

We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail.

— Robert Breault

Among both individuals with high-functioning autism or Asperger and their parents, many are superfast at spotting details. You hardly have time to…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

When you are dealing with approximately two-plus hours every few years to do a story, you don't have the luxury of having…

— Michael Uslan

I think a lot of guys just go out there and fight, or they learn a real basic way of striking. There…

— Gerald Meerschaert

To become an Architect in the right sense of the word means that a man shall give his life to it and…

— Cass Gilbert

“You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a…

— Sara Sheridan

Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually…

— Rose Tremain

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or…

— Stephen Fry

There was a 3-foot-long model that was built for 'New Hope,' and then there was an 8-foot model that was built for…

— John Knoll

Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions between two or more domestic races,…

— Charles Darwin

In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of…

— Josip Novakovich

In a democracy it is ultimately for us, the citizens, to judge where to place the balance between security and privacy, safety…

— Timothy Garton Ash

When we kind of get caught up in the minutiae, the details that make us all different, I think there's two ways…

— Mahershala Ali

Dear friend, I feel great! I really mean it. I have to remember his for the next time I'm having a terrible…

— Stephen Chbosky

I always choose an area that is of personal interest, but I don't plan my travels in detail. There are so many…

— Josef Hoflehner

Most of my folks back home think Social Security and Medicare are sacred commitments stronger than the strongest contract. And yet if…

— Jim Cooper

'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes…

— George R. R. Martin

If you just focus on the smallest details, you will never get the big picture right.

— Leroy Hood

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

— Fredrik Bajer

See every crack, every detail. I learned to really see and not just look at my business.

— Jon Taffer

One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to…

— Lynne Truss

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

— Sinclair Lewis

So, what are you?" "What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are…

— Cassandra Clare

You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.

— Natalie Goldberg

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

— Annie Baker

But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.

— Claudia Cardinale

I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death.

— Victoria Aveyard

We want to let you use a Mac, or Windows PC, or iPad, or Android, without having to think about any of…

— Arash Ferdowsi

Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.

— Grace Potter

I'm saying is that I hope that you drill in with the same detail with his [Donald Trump] team as you're drilling…

— Robby Mook

The clothes are so cute. On little kids .. it's so cute with accessories and little details.

— Ashley Olsen

There's nothing I love more than admiring the details and embellishments on the works of art that I wear.

— Violet Chachki

The biggest pieces of my business are not public. Maybe I'll tell all the details when I'm 50 or 60.

— Scooter Braun