I guess I have an aversion to writing about big events and heroic actions. The everyday has always seemed most important to… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
The variety of more minute interests, which will necessarily fall under the superintendence of the local administrations . . . cannot be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal. — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail. — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
A lot more people will want to hear a 5-minute singing cartoon about Communism in China than will want to read that… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that… — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in… — Cornelius Lanczos Copy Share Image
Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the… — David W. Blight Copy Share Image
The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In German. I'm more sensitized to the details, to the emotions. In English, I wouldn't detect as much nuance. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I rap about fighting back. I make it uncomfortable by putting details to it. It might not have been politically correct but… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I'm down with Spotify. I don't know all the financial details but generally it's a great resource. — Ezra Koenig Copy Share Image
It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details. — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
The details of what [Barack] Obama was going to do to the American health care system didn't matter. All that mattered was… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look… — Alexander Kluge Copy Share Image
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it. — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Few people outside the Telegram fan community realize that most of the new features in messaging appear on Telegram first, and are… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
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