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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

We feel that the information provided to us was not sufficiently detailed to help us enforce or supervise the cleanup of the site.

We knew we were in the front row, but we didn't know we'd get to meet the pope. There were these men working security detail all around. One of them walked up and said, 'Those of you in the front row are going to have an opportunity to meet the pope.' I was shocked.

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.

Robert Klein

My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.

This was not a house burglary. The items were returned to their rightful owner and she gave police a detailed statement. She has a very sad reason for doing this.

We had a very detailed discussion, a very heart-to-heart discussion.

Cobi Jones

I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.

shows its determination in detail regarding dismantlement of their nuclear programs.

Sinclair Lewis

. . . she did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them . . .

Ehud Barak

shaping the overall strategy and the details of how to move forward.

She is starting to open more, she is starting to be able to give us more details of the time period surrounding the events.

Ashwin Sanghi

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

We have reporting capabilities that we never had before. They can have as much detail as they want.

Donald Johanson

But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor.

Victoria Osteen

You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

We don't have a lot of details as to what kinds of tests were done, but we are obviously keen to have the samples sent abroad.

Bob Stoops

We didn't push it. I'm not going to detail it for you.

Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New York Public Library in order to try to get one obscure detail right. For instance, was the Socialist Workers Party originally called the American Workers Party or the Workers Party of the United States?

We're not going into details on the specifics of the processor other than to say we're not satisfied with the quality right now.

Tom Coburn

The proof, of course, will be in the details of how we stay together,