Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alphonse de Lamartine

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

David O. Selznick

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

Roger Clemens

just to try and look at the details of everything that happened.

John Hume

He knows details about the machine ... this is model X and why. That shows a really involved collector.

He refused to elaborate; he wouldn't give any details as to what that meant.

Having a third party know all of the news you read is troublesome enough. It gives away key details about your beliefs, your opinions and your interests.

Robert Esche

He's a great man. I like him a lot. Obviously, stuff will come out. I don't really know the details of it. But I do know he is a good man.

Ann Beattie

Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live.

John Mara

He said he was very much in support of our project, but that he needed some time to familiarize himself with the details of the deal.

He's a long ways from where he was two weeks ago - and he's getting better every day. He's really athletic, strong, big and he can close. He's got the tools. He just has to learn all the little details of the position. But he's getting there.

We are gaining information on the differences and similarities between viral mechanisms and eukaryotic mechanisms. Getting to the molecular details of these gets to the possibility of learning one mechanism versus the other so you can try and stop (the virus from attacking) the human cell.

There aren't any details to discuss at this time. We're expecting that the team will go to the White House some time in the spring. As we get more information, we'll pass it along.

Jack Levin

We make celebrities out of serial killers. They're glamorized and romanticized. People forget about the gruesome details of their crimes.

Pierre Berbizier

For us it will now become fundamental to improve the small details. It is these details that make the difference between top sides and sides like ours.

For most states in the region, unemployment rates moved lower and job growth higher as manufacturers, finance firms and energy providers details growth. However, telecommunications remained weak and construction cooled in January.

Mahmoud Abbas

We need to renegotiate the details and get back to the real border,

The graphical editors are important. People don't always understand the different syntax. If you're concentrating on Web services, the goal is to make you productive without worrying about the details of how a WSDL file is put together.

First is the price tag - it's huge, and the financing details are fairly complex. People are going to want to know how realistic is it that you are going to get this money.

Taylor Branch

But the more information that comes out, the more explicable and human historical events become. The details make the story real.

The governor's looking for a success, and the voters aren't going to measure a success by the size of the bond. The details aren't as important as the public image of him having a success.

There are lands in eastern and northern Gaza still under occupation, ... We need to renegotiate the details and get back to the real border.

We welcome the fact that he (Newell) has said that he is willing to provide names and details of people who have breached the rules. If he provides us with evidence we will investigate fully.

Michael Chambers

We obviously want to get details about this before we know what to do.

Mark Rosenker

We don't want to get into the details of what he shared with us.

There could be even up to 500 people inside. More details will be given later.

Dick Armey

trying to fit the president's details into our principles, and it's a very difficult fit to be made. But I think we can get there.

We need more details about what parts of the project still need to be done.

Carl Sagan

But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

Art Bell

Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.

I think there is a fatigue factor, no doubt about that. Everybody is waiting for things to heat up. What constitutes heating up, I don't know, except for the testimony of the two individuals perhaps. You can't hide the fact that all the details have come out over the last three years. There is nothing new. These guys have been hammered. People think they know what they need to know to have an opinion.

O. Henry

Larry?s role does not change. Details next week.

Priest Holmes

I see it all. I see your uniform number. I see the details in your hairstyle. That's when I really feel I'm in tune with what my offensive linemen are doing and I can just see holes opening.

Local authorities are prohibiting or strongly discouraging people from returning to homes they have evacuated. So as we gather details of where pets were left behind, we'll be working with all the other rescue teams and organizations to pick them up and reunite them with their families.