Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Collins

I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.

Madame de Stael

Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.

Langston Hughes

Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.

Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism.

Oswald Chambers

Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.

Jodi Picoult

Life is not a plot; it's in the details.

Jodi Picoult

Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.

John Green

He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.

Matt Damon

He's famous for being obsessive about details.

Louis Kronenberger

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

J. K. Rowling

I don't feel I owe my readers details of my family's private life.

Sissy Spacek

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

Sherwin B. Nuland

The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your own life, the more universal you are. Everybody needs to be understood. And out of that comes every form of love.

John Wooden

Details create success.

Patricia Highsmith

The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.

Mary E. Pearson

...and time becomes a forgotten detail.

It has been three years since the government published details of the options regarding the regulation of private military companies, yet ministers have failed to find a solution.

I have worked to learn English, but it is good to have someone to speak Korean with. We can have more detailed conversations. We can hang out together.

Dusty Baker

I read it, man. I was lost. I didn't even know there were that many kind of steroids. I've never even seen steroids. I didn't even know what kind of steroids are steroids other than the kinds you use to fight allergies. ... I was quite surprised with the detail that was in there.

Ruth Rendell

I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while.

The final details have to be sorted between Williams and Jenson, but if it helps, and Williams want to involve us, then we are all open to help the situation.

Richard Tyler

The hair is really wonderful. Just very simple, very chic. In a ponytail where it's long, just so you can see the detail of the jackets and the detail of the clothes.

Tony Richardson

You turn it up a notch when you're getting ready to play a team like this. When you're getting ready to play Philadelphia, you can't leave anything to chance. You can't leave any detail unnoticed. It forces you to focus even harder because you know if you're not ready, they're going to exploit your weaknesses.

Joel Edgerton

The downside to making movies at a gallop like we did with 'Wish You Were Here' is that we're shooting four or five scenes in a day, and it's very exhilarating, but you worry at the end of the day that you missed some details because you were moving too quick, and you just gotta trust and be ready straightaway.

The frustrating thing for us is when we try to find out when it actually occurred (closure to swimming, fishing or drinking), we couldn't get those details from the state.

Lynn Margulis

Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.

You'd be surprised to know how long we've taken to go over the little details that to some people would seem like a waste of time. But we want to get it right.

Michael Korda

Very well observed and touching story, wonderful eye for detail and a pleasure to read,

Arlen Specter

very thorough and piercing confirmation process with very, very detailed questions on what Judge Roberts has said in the past.

You don't know how much detail people want you to go into, though,

The underlying details of this report paint a stronger picture of the manufacturing sector, as evidenced by the robust growth rate of orders excluding transportation over the last three months.

John Faso

It's an example of one of the contrasts between us. I have much more intimate knowledge of the details of New York state.

Nancy Carroll

It just seems like there always needs to be a few more details fleshed out. If we can (see the report), we will, but I don't want to make any guarantees.