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.

Bryan Whitman

We are looking into what information -- and in what detail -- was provided to the commission, but as I understand it, at least some of this information was provided.

Edward Gibbon

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

Norman Finkelstein

My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all.

Richard Rhodes

Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.

Mike Goodman

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

Jami Attenberg

What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.

Willie Aames

When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.

Dustin Pedroia

He had pretty filthy stuff. He's telling us where it's going and it was still tough to hit. He looks like he's in midseason form.

Tim Hamilton

If this keeps up, our quality of life is going in the toilet and they are getting filthy rich.

Jonathan Winters

I know you can be funny without being filthy.

Chris Morris

This movie is very different from the typical teenage/high school movies that have come out in the past, ... There's no filthy stuff.

Denise Mina

It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility.

Russ Martin

He's throwing very well. His changeup is as filthy as ever.

David Ortiz

It's his first time in the big leagues, but he pitches like he's been around forever. He reminds me of Roger Clemens the attitude, the arm. When he gets more experience, he's going to be filthy. He's filthy already.

Jonathan Galassi

The FSG story starts to lose its fairy-tale aura when filthy lucre invades the sacred enclosure, as it did ubiquitously in the every-man-for-himself Reagan era.