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.

Edward Gibbon

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.

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,

Nancy Horan

So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.

Emmanuelle Seigner

'Venus in Fur' is very Polanski: you have the knife of 'Rosemary's Baby'; you have Thomas disguised as a woman as in 'The Tenant,' when Vanda puts makeup on him, it's like 'Cul de Sac'; the dress of Tess and other details that are very Polanski. He fell in love with the play because it was so much him.

We don't have the details but we can be outraged in general.

Albert Einstein

I want to Gods thoughts, the rest are details.

We worked late into the evening last night and it's a competitive process. We're still working on the final details of the contract.

We are not able to discuss details in an ongoing homicide.

Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories.

I don't remember the details (of the presentation), ... but I know I was impressed.

Larry Walker

I don't think it's been officially announced. You're hearing it from my mouth. It's official. I'm retired. I don't know what the details are in making it official. Don't know, don't care. It just means I have to be on TV again.

Pat Roberts

I can't really tell you some of the more specific details that would make your eyebrows even raise higher,

I don't know all of the details yet. Put me at that table, and I will be your voice.

Ben Goldacre

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

We understood these flows in a general way, but the details were unclear, so we could not use them to make predictions before.

Stephen Hawking

Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

Donald Knuth

I'm obsessively detail-oriented.