Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stanley

If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

John Ryding

The plunge in durable goods orders in January is entirely due to volatility in transportation. The underlying details of this report are much stronger than the headline.

Edward Gibbon

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

Mike Goodman

What we're seeing right now is most likely stage one, with other details to come in the near future.

Penny Junor

What makes life most difficult is the media intrusion, ... I think the public has gotten more and more greedy for the intimate details of their lives. These people are exposed to scrutiny 24 hours a day. We feel we have a right to know. We feel it's in the public interest. Even pop stars get more privacy. We just want to know every last detail. They are living in a goldfish bowl. And it never goes away.

Diane Ackerman

I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.

David Procopio

There are many details about this person and how she died that may be known only to her killer and little by little by us.

Alexandra Stoddard

The correct word is like any small detail - it enhances life.

Andrea Dean

We have never had an incident like this. We are going to review our policies and our protocol.

E. L. Konigsburg

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.

Ken Trump

When I looked at the incidents this year, it jumped right out.

Ben Carson

We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.

Dave Bristow

We don't know if the two incidents are related, but it could be that the suspects were working with the two men who were arrested.

Lajos Egri

No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.

Matt Bryden

Because of the reduced U.N. presence on the border, any incident could be interpreted as a provocation.

LaNedra Carroll

I'd like to think it was an isolated incident because we've put the word out repeatedly.

Monte Mitchell

We've responded to nine incidents seven in the past two weeks.

Charles Stross

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Al Sharpton

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

Chris Chocola

Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.

Gareth Peirce

Why the delay? What were the police doing investigating themselves when that was not their role?

Eddie Izzard

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

August Strindberg

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

Dick Durbin

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

Dennis Kucinich

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.

Bill O'Reilly

The one thing the police cannot protect us from is a politician like Bill de Blasio.

Allen Perry

The place was vulnerable during construction, and most of the things stolen were smaller.

Halldor Laxness

What you have stolen can never be yours.

Guy deBord

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

Nathan Fillion

I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

Neil Finn

What was stolen must be returned