Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
London audiences are tricky, too. They don't laugh as much as the Northern audiences because, and I hate to say this, they… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
Sometimes you think certain details are things that only you would notice, so it's a great thing to feel like you're not… — Sampha Copy Share Image
This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Our life is frittered away by detail Simplify, simplify.” Or, as Plato wrote, “In order to seek one’s own direction, one must… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to break it down into… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of,… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
In broad outline and in detail, the life of Jesus as portrayed in the gospels corresponds to the worldwide Mythic Hero Archetype… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
For me, being able to engage with the details when necessary, when there's a challenge, when there's a particularly important pivot, yes,… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Because 'The Boy With The Topknot' is a true story there are so many specific details that are true, current, accurate and… — Sacha Dhawan Copy Share Image
The token of a true cosmos is in fact a particular kind of design, referred to in the book of Genesis in… — Rodney Collin Copy Share Image
Chef Matt Accarrino has the best pasta in San Francisco, and Shelley Lindgren is one of my favorite sommeliers. Their attention to… — Elizabeth Falkner Copy Share Image
It's like, the more you zoom in and focus on the details, the closer to the invisible and immeasurable qualities - like… — Adrianne Lenker Copy Share Image
It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
In my opinion, this is why I play basketball, for these games late in the year when details and discipline matter and… — Alex Caruso Copy Share Image
Guys always ask, 'What do you watch film on?' But to me, I need to constantly check on any little thing I… — Justin Tucker Copy Share Image
When you sketch a shoe but don't have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sketch with no… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
They're both [Ethan Hawke and John Travolta] so good. It's hard to explain. But they're consummate professionals and you see the little… — Ti West Copy Share Image
I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off… — Jessica Raine Copy Share Image
Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its… — Martha Grimes 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
Everyone has a belief system in his or her mind, a story about the way they think the world actually is, even… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
He [Donald Trump] can do almost anything as long as they feel like he's kind of effectively with him, that he kind… — Michelle Goldberg Copy Share Image
I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know… — John Paul DeJoria Copy Share Image
The guy I cater my clothes to wants to be different without going overboard. So we sell many classic silhouettes with unique… — Edgar Davids Copy Share Image
We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I like books steeped in the quotidian - details about work and place. You can learn how to run a chicken-and-waffle restaurant… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image