My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
A compliance with the minutiae of military courtesy is a mark of well-disciplined troops. — John A. Lejeune Copy Share Image
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Curses are exacting, legal arrangements of the spiritual world. Just like human contracts contain fine print and legally crafted language, satanic curses… — Bob Larson Copy Share Image
Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their… — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
“it might be argued that our lives are a concatenation of minutiae interrupted at unpredictable times by significant events.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the… — Xander Berkeley Copy Share Image
We get to get into the nitty-gritty and the minutiae of the way they relate now, and that's really valuable. We just… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
When we kind of get caught up in the minutiae, the details that make us all different, I think there's two ways… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I believe in the transformative power of cinema. It is only through this shared dream-experience that we can transcend the oppressive minutiae… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
You spend so many months and years in the studio, and you see the clock ticking and so much time spent on… — Beck Copy Share Image
I know for myself my big, long friendships they don't have the same problems any more, but they also-when you get together… — Josh Lucas Copy Share Image
It is a thought as sweet as heaven to know that in the minds of each of us the may by the… — Eve Langley Copy Share Image
A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life. To begin with, the very word "risk" implies worry, and people who… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do is paint a picture of an atypical human being going through all of the existential struggles, but… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
“You get surprised by looking back and wondering when you started not allowing anyone to approach you, to decide that deep down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We have this wild life experience that is full of fantastic minutiae and banal, huge events at the same time. Yet, all… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
“You theoretically have so much more time at home, but you fill it with the minutiae that you somehow managed to avoid… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“When we get caught up in the minutiae, the details that make us all different... There's opportunity to see the texture of… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Just because I am paying attention to politics and culture doesn't mean that I should be talking about the health-care bill, talking… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I… — Pamela Sue Martin Copy Share Image
It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
With the never-ending stream of new social technologies, apps and platforms rolling out every day, its easy to get lost in the… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
I quickly said that because of my loyalty to Star Trek, and also just being a fan, I wouldn’t even want to… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
