Famous Quotes & Sayings

Everything is pretty much in place. There are only a few last-minute details to work out. But we are ready for prime time on Wednesday.

Tom Segev

It's like everybody's a relative: the whole country's glued to the radio or the TV, waiting for details from the hospital.

Cassandra Clare

He saved your life,” Clary pointed out. “Details,” said Simon dismissively.

Murray Gell-Mann

I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.

J. K. Rowling

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Ian Mcewan

The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back.

Ehud Barak

I am optimistic but I know that only with true hard work on the details will we be able to win.

I don't want to get into too many details as to what the investigation turned up.

James McBride

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

Elmore Leonard

Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're ­Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.

The details of the revisions also suggest that growth is on a more sustainable footing.

The details of the report suggest many of these drags on growth were one-off factors and that the underlying trend in 2006 remains strong.

The details of how this joint basing is going to work out remain to be seen,

Chris Rankin

The details are still pretty sketchy as far as what was going on in the jail. All we know is they were involved in a fight, they were separated, and at some point this guy went downhill extremely fast and died.

The details are slightly less robust than the headline, but this is nonetheless a dollar-positive report.

The details are really what make the park special.

Leigh Steinberg

The details and the process are in their court. But let me say that I am optimistic about the process. He's planning on returning.

Edward T. Hall

One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

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.

Lisa Gardner

God was in the details.

Langston Hughes

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

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

God dwells in the details.

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.

Madame de Stael

Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.

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.

We will be reducing the price, though exact details are being worked out.

This was the last test before the end of the season, so the work we've done here will be very important for the remaining six races. We didn't test any big things, just some small details which are important for us.

This was a disgrace. No details were provided to the executive board. (Toussaint) wants us to discuss the details after Christmas.

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.

Louis Kronenberger

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