Best Details Wisdom
1302 Details quotes by 1021 unique authors
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When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all…
— Paul Auster
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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
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When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.
— David Byrne
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I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you…
— Libba Bray
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That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where…
— Wes Anderson
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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
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The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each…
— Dave Barry
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God dwells in the details.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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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
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In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details, which must be attended to if rules have to be…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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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
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I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. - singer Michael…
— Linda Kaplan Thaler
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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
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I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many people—who are neither medical professionals nor trans themselves—would want to hear all of the gory…
— Julia Serano
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The majority of individuals view their surroundings with a minimal amount of observational effort. They are unaware of the rich tapestry of details that surrounds…
— Joe Navarro
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.
— Honore de Balzac
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