Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Edward Gibbon

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

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.

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.

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.'

Bjarne Stroustrup

And no, I'm not a walking C++ dictionary. I do not keep every technical detail in my head at all times. If I did that, I would be a much poorer programmer. I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.

Benny Goodman

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

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.

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.

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

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.

So far it is not officially canceled, ... There was an idea promoted by the Egyptian president, Mubarak, and the details of such a meeting at this very moment are not known. The scheduled time is tomorrow evening and it's a long, long time here. Many things can be changed.

Karl Lagerfeld

The inside is all very refined with tons of details that make it very expensive.

Not really knowing what the details are, it would probably be immense, ... and we would try to get the state to do it because of lack of resources.

After that happens, we are then able to widely distribute the takeover offer which includes full details of the proposal.

Paris Hilton

It's no big secret that Nicole and I are no longer friends, ... I will not go into the details of what happened. All I will say is that Nicole knows what she did, and that's all I am ever going to say about it.

in its tiniest details so we can make the most of it immediately, set-up wise.

I'm not getting into the details of what we know, when we first found out and all that sort of thing. That would be inappropriate,

Roger Clemens

I want to go watch it again, just to look at the details of everything that happened,

Albert Einstein

I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details

Tamar Jacoby

It turns out some of those devilish details are giving people trouble now. And what looked like such a promising thing last week ... is turning out to be tough work.

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

We thank riders for their patience and forbearance. We will be providing various details regarding the outcome of this strike in the next several days.

In terms of where he might go after that, that is going to be up to Mr. Rahman. And I understand now that the details of his release and his -- any potential onward travel are being handled as a private matter." ()

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.

Irwin Redlener

There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

Josh Henderson

Before we shot the pilot, I knew what 'Dallas' was, but I actually was too young to remember the details of the show. I didn't have my hands on the DVDs, so I YouTubed everything I could of J.R.

Before we see significant uptake, operators need to sort out predictable costs. There are flat monthly charges, but they tend to have a usage limit of 1 Gigabyte. Those details need to be sorted out.

I don't really want to go back and forth. There are no details here. Whatever they say is what it is, right?

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.

Intel's philosophical emphasis is swinging from one extreme to the other. We haven't seen many details yet, but it may be even more efficient than the AMD chips, and Intel has been hinting at a lot of performance.