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602 Detail quotes by 541 unique authors
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When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever…
— Claudio Reyna
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The devil is in the detail.
— Paulo Coelho
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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
— Fernando Pessoa
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My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.
— Rose Tremain
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Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to…
— Fredrik Bajer
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We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
— Fredrik Bajer
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In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die;…
— James Weldon Johnson
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Humans and other animals experience love and fear, and form deep emotional bonds with cherished companions. We mourn when a close friend dies, and so…
— Gene Baur
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The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is…
— John Pawson
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Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the…
— Anne Michaels
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The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute and final authority over the whole church and over all of its members in every detail…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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It's not human nature to be great. It's human nature to survive, to be average and do what you have to do to get by.…
— Nick Saban
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When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine…
— Joan Halifax
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Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
— Rudolf Arnheim
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
— W. S. Gilbert
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In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.
— Stanislav Grof
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The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less…
— Ben Fountain
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A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each…
— Auguste Rodin
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I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … . Despite my alienation…
— Knut Hamsun
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I have said and I repeat, at the risk of being sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second…
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
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Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her use of the…
— Caryl Churchill
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The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to the hymnal where all responsibility toward it may…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real,
— Jan Brett
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To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a…
— Che Guevara
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