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I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen in Songs Only… — Jaimy Gordon
No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants of… — James E. Talmage
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness… — Unknown Author
The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world… — Ansel Adams
I'm up to my hairline in planning. It's a lot, especially when you're a woman of detail, — Katy Perry
I beat my children daily, with a shoe, because I don't want them to grow up fairies. At 9 p.m. I promptly play The Wall… — Thom Yorke
I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail. — Brian Herbert
During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the… — Akira Kurosawa
Paris... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail. — Edmund White
Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole. — S. D Gordon
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of her improbable life… — Unknown Author
The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share music and it was also… — Lavinia Greenlaw
The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the Atlantic slave trade… — David W. Blight
Jerusalem Maiden is a page-turning and thought-provoking novel. Extraordinary sensory detail vividly conjures another time and place; heroine Esther Kaminsky’s poignant struggle transcends time and… — Binnie Kirshenbaum
The Passion of Christ was an experience which included in itself every experience except sin, of every member of the human race. If one may… — Caryll Houselander
If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable, divining it's meaning,… — Karen Traviss
My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the… — Zeno of Elea
The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least… — Niklaus Wirth
Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work. — Honore de Balzac
Good design is thorough, down to the last detail. — Dieter Rams
I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic… — Fanny Kemble
Good design is innovative Gives a product utility Is aesthetic Makes a product easy to understand Is unobtrusive Is honest Is long-lived Is consistent down… — Dieter Rams
The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design, the… — Unknown Author

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