Details Quotes · Page 18

I probably make my team crazy with the questions I ask, but you really have to understand the deep details to be…

— Jamie S. Miller

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

— Robert Morgan

I'm not a perfectionist. I don't have enough patience to go over the same details over and over trying to get it…

— Phil Elverum

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

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

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

— Ashley Olsen

I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot…

— Ted Allen

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life…

— Anonymous

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The nominee is Mitt Romney. Paul Ryan joins Mitt Romney. The budget plan, the approach on Medicare and all of that is…

— John Sununu

So much about Trump is... mysterious and slippery. Everything in his business record, you had to ask him for the details. He…

— David Fahrenthold

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful…

— Harrison Ford

I am drawn to the new chart with all of its colorful intricacies as a gourmet must anticipate the details of a…

— Ernest K. Gann

The various parts of the body cannot be perceived as simple units and have no clear relationship to one another. In almost…

— Kenneth Clark

“If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical constants occurring in these laws are…

— George Gamow

Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Losing builds character. So, if you're the loser in your family, don't worry. 'Cos twenty years form now, that perfect can do…

— Christopher Titus

In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to…

— John Edensor Littlewood

And, what's more, this 'precious' body, the very same that is hooted and honked at, demeaned both in daily life as well…

— Emilie Autumn

The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system…

— August Wilson

Every period piece is made in the context of the moment, always equally trying to capture something about now through then. But…

— Fred Hechinger

Susannah Heschel's The Aryan Jesus is a brilliant and erudite investigation of the convergence between major trends in German Protestantism and Nazi…

— Saul Friedlander

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

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

— Arash Ferdowsi

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

— Victoria Aveyard

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

— Henry David Thoreau

I think it's a certain gift when songwriters can go about their daily lives and extract little details that no one else…

— Olivia Rodrigo

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every…

— Samuel Smiles

“I'm a typical American, half of me is dying to give myself away and the other half is continually rebelling.”

— David Foster Wallace

Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big…

— Steven Saylor

I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get…

— Nick Hornby

I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply…

— Anthony Browne

Man is a magnet, and every line and dot and detail of his experiences come by his own attraction.

— Elizabeth Towne

Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere

— Joan Didion