Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rhodes

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

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

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.

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.

Trade is complicated. It is a very detailed process, there are lots of tariff schedules and it does take time.

We would like to come up with a detailed set-up we could test as soon as next season. The only improvement introduced in football over the last 20 years is that the ball can't be passed with the foot to the goalkeeper any more.

I'm a storyteller. I'm not like any other comic. I tell detailed stories - not made-up stuff, but true stories.

Raina Telgemeier

I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read them and reflect on the previous years of my life.

I don't have any detailed information on the proposal. So I don't know if there are any nuances that would move the projected numbers up or down.

I'd like a detailed explanation as to why they can't get this done. I just want to make sure the tax dollars are being watched out for in this whole thing.

I do not want us to be starry-eyed about our normal way of doing legislative business. We should not suggest that the alternative to what is being proposed is some splendid mechanism of detailed scrutiny.

We used a genetic fingerprint in the Y chromosome that was sufficiently detailed that you wouldn't expect very many men to have the same one.

What is the need for this detailed knowledge, O Arjuna? I continually support the entire universe by a small fraction of My energy.

John Schneider

Going forward from here, we'll take what we've done and probably go back into a small group arrangement and be more detailed on what the steps would be in these various areas.

Tony Blair

His WMD program is active, detailed and growing. The policy of containment is not working,

He is just a master painter. He used to do really detailed works when he was younger. When he got older, he developed Parkinson's, so now he does paintings that are expressionistic, simplified. They're all about color. He's brilliant.

David Christian

Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past.

We now need a detailed security plan from the Palestinians,

Jerry Thomas

I support the replacement of (patrol) cars. But I would like to see a detailed fleet management plan.

Typically, industrial operations have an in-house energy management group that can go a long way toward determining their needs but can't really do a detailed feasibility study. So, they need to come to consultants like us.

That way we can compile a detailed list to go by.

The detailed guidelines would make work more straightforward in those areas.

detailed report about similar episodes in Sicily recently.

Detailed planning will follow if the forecast for success in program growth is positive.

This has been a mystery for a thousand years. Nobody knew what they looked like in the wild. We only saw them dead. These images will open the door to more detailed study of their life.

The most frustrating thing to me is that FedEx can do that sort of detailed tracking of what it ships, but public health officials can't do the same thing with flu vaccine. The knowledge of where exactly vaccine is ought to be a public resource. We have a lot of work to do.

The inside is not completely determined as to what Wright wanted, because his drawings were not detailed enough.

It sounds simple, but it isn't. It's really detailed work.

Leopold Trepper

In February, I sent a detailed dispatch giving the exact number of divisions withdrawn from France and Belgium, and sent to the east.

New York state is large, diverse and complex. You need people with detailed understanding and insights of what's happening in their areas.

The replacement took place under a detailed plan over quite a long period of time.