...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening. — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
How, then, has Obama been saddled with an image of being long on inspiration and short on details? The answer is that… — Howard Kurtz Copy Share Image
There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first… — William Morris Hunt 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
A lot of people believe you only need a vision. This is simply not correct. You need brilliant execution every day. It's… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. We don't know what details… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
An example I love: Diwata auditioned for the school play by doing a big number from Once Upon A Mattress. I went… — Sarah Steele Copy Share Image
The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The steady states of the fluid matrix of the body are commonly preserved by physiological reactions, i.e., by more complicated processes than… — Walter Bradford Cannon Copy Share Image
Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in… — Julian Coolidge Copy Share Image
We have the same genetic code for all living creatures. We have a large number of genes that are manifestly the same,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It's a complex song, and it's fascinating to watch the creative process as they went back and forth and finally created it… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up… — Andre Øvredal Copy Share Image
Who doesn't love a statement sock? I mean, we won't go in to details, but your underwear has to be bright, too. — Bubba Watson Copy Share Image
Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
Science is the topography of ignorance. From a few elevated points we triangulate vast spaces, inclosing infinite unknown details. We cast the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
