Details Quotes · Page 21

...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

— Edith Wharton

The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.

— Jefferson Mays

Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog; God is in the details.

— Dean Koontz

I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing…

— David E. Hoffman

I can't write anything if I don't know where it's set, where the events are happening - even if the details of…

— Laura van den Berg

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all…

— Sandra Bullock

Linebacker is a lot more detail oriented and you have to know a lot more than a defensive end necessarily would on…

— Justin Cole

As the writer, I may choose to ignore the emotional heart of the matter, and focus on details, and trust that the…

— Lydia Davis

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of…

— V. S. Naipaul

Tom's [Brady] personal preferences on his footballs are something he can take about in much better detail and information than I could…

— Bill Belichick

What I liked of Mourinho is his work ethic and the way he organizes his team against the opponent. He knows the…

— Patrick Vieira

I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I…

— Andrea Barrett

Gay men are perfect men for girls who are tough. They're not threatened by strong women, and they're usually very in touch…

— Madonna Ciccone

Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an…

— Lynn Margulis

Sometimes you'll read something and think, "What is going on here? There must be more to this." The constraints of the news…

— Joshuah Bearman

I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature…

— James Cameron

The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential…

— Freeman Dyson

DMT was a gaseous wax that you could smoke that gave you a 20-minute psychedelic high. You'd inhale it. And then when…

— Iggy Pop

They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female…

— Gloria Steinem

President [Ronald] Reagan never has tried to become an expert on military matters. He never has endeavored to learn the most important…

— Helmut Schmidt

I want to know diverse facts about such things as galaxies or molecules or proteins or insect species. I have an impulse…

— Robert J. Shiller

The K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle was pounded into my head in school and I still follow it today in most…

— Jeff Fisher

If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling.…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

— Anonymous

I think, as a writer, you see the big picture, and as an actor, you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the…

— Richard Dormer

I swear. Everyone here gets so worked up over the most minute details. ~Mayuri Kurotsuchi

— Tite Kubo

While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East.

— Frederick Lenz

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

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

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

Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

— Anton Ehrenzweig

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