Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurie Anderson

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.

Stephen King

The truth is in the details.

Stephen Amell

Im share a lot of details, but 98 percent of my life is still private.

Thomas S. Monson

The Lord is in the details of our lives.

Robert Greene

Defeat Them in Detail: The Divide and Conquer Strategy. Look at the parts and determine how to control the individual parts, create dissension and leverage it.

Wes Anderson

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

Sandra Bullock

I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.

Sanford I. Weill

Details create the big picture.

Samuel Beckett

Estragon: Suppose we repented. Vladimir: Repented what? Estragon: Oh...(He reflects.) We wouldn’t have to go into the details. Vladimir: Our being born?

W. G. Sebald

Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!

William Strunk, Jr.

The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.

William James

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

William Feather

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

Yehudi Menuhin

To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal. You require absolute control and professionalism.