Detail Quotations

It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.

I think the first thing is don't give up. If you love the craft. If you love being a detective and discovering who a character is and the detail of how they walk and what kind of shoes they wear and what did they do yesterday and what's important to them. I definitely advise actors to learn about the craft.

Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for me, one of the highest compliments you can pay a novel is to say that it has the rich texture and eloquent detail of a good story collection.

I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.

Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.

After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in plot-building. I jot down every single detail of the plot as bullet points per chapter, and only when the skeleton is complete do I start writing.

The best science frequently combines an awareness of broad and significant problems with focus on an apparently small issue or detail that someone very much wants to solve or understand. Sometimes these little problems or inconsistencies turn out to be the clues to big advances.

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is the time and attention paid by the carpenter, the seamstress and the tailor that makes this detail possible.

It was always that detail that drove me. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to get into the nitty gritty... when I was drawing army tanks or monsters, I'd do every nut and rivet, and I'd do every scale on the dragon's back. It was just the way I was built.

I can't separate the process of writing from the visual process. I'm speaking only for myself here, but I'm a highly visual writer. In my imagination, when I'm thinking of a scene, I think of every last detail of it: The space, the color palette, the blocking of the actors, the placement of the camera.

Michael Jackson was the biggest star the world has ever seen - he put so much into everything; a lot of attention to detail. I want to do that. I want to pay that kind of attention to detail in everything - in music, visually - all of that.

To be memorable and to have dramatic impact, informational detail must function actively within the dynamic of a story.

We players are as normal human beings as anyone else, and we also have the right to live a normal life. I don't understand why people talk so much about the way we dress up, how we walk, what we eat, and every little detail of ours. Players are the real heroes. Sports have both respect and fame, and I am fortunate enough to be a sportsperson.

Once you do have a child, you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends, and it should be. I was really worried about even going there at all.

I have to write three books a year to make a reasonable living out of writing - unless, of course, she gets a major American film deal. Phryne has been optioned since the very first book, but to make a historical TV movie, it costs $30,000 a day extra for the historical detail to be correct, so most people aren't doing it.

While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New York Public Library in order to try to get one obscure detail right. For instance, was the Socialist Workers Party originally called the American Workers Party or the Workers Party of the United States?

When you're so close to material, it would be as if you had come out of a bad marriage. You would be so close to it that you would be paying attention to detail that may not mean a whole lot for the reader.

Let your mind see every detail of your own special version of the very best that life can be. If you could make the world exactly to your liking, consider very specifically just how that world would be. If you could spend your time doing precisely what you wish, how would the moments of your life be lived?

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

In the past, a writer had to go outside and get to know others before learning about their work, but the Internet has made humanity more accessible for misanthropes like me. I read blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and Reddit threads where people detail their jobs.

My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all.

Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one's mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.

I don't have any great detail or logic or exact point that I look for in a film. It's just if I get a good sense from it and I feel that there is something interesting that we may be able to do with it, then I just kind of go for it.

Our songs were not written to be listened to in headphones or on the radio. They were written to be played. All of the little infinite detail that went into the arrangements and giving ourselves lots of breathing room in terms of playing what we wanted to play and using up any ideas that we had - all of those were conceived to be performed.

You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

During my study of happiness, I noticed something that surprised me: I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal principles or cite up-to-date studies.

We are looking into what information -- and in what detail -- was provided to the commission, but as I understand it, at least some of this information was provided.

We remain confident in the prospects for earnings expansion in 2006 and will discuss this in more detail during our normally scheduled earnings call on Jan. 23.

What we're seeing from Lehman is that market conditions improved through the summer, and that conditions are likely to continue improving. That's showing up in the earnings and in the detail of their reports.

What this budget does is express (Schwarzenegger's) best judgment of how all the competing needs of California can be met and in this case provide a very large increase in education funding. What he also understands is that his process requires a long and detail discussion with the Legislature, which he is eager to engage.

What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.

We refrained from announcing this detail previously out of consideration for the man's bereaved family.

To play nine years falling short, you almost stop thinking about it. I was really able to enjoy the (Super Bowl) week, have a lot of fun. If we can go into next year with the same focus and attention to detail we had the last eight weeks, that will give us a chance again.

We knew we were in the front row, but we didn't know we'd get to meet the pope. There were these men working security detail all around. One of them walked up and said, 'Those of you in the front row are going to have an opportunity to meet the pope.' I was shocked.

We'll begin to image the surface and look at its composition with detail that we've just not been able to do before.

We're announcing the appropriate amount of detail we can share with you today.

We have reporting capabilities that we never had before. They can have as much detail as they want.

There is a lot more detail now around our expectations. This lays out clearly that entertainment should not interfere with duty to the customer.

We shall look for more detail on the group's cost-cutting programme and on recent acquisitions. Overall, we expect the outlook statement and current trading to be the main share price drivers.

We needed a warehouse to store detail supplies, and we just decided to make it work for us.

To provide background and physical description and all the rest is of course vital to fiction, but vital only insofar as such detail is in the service of a richly imagined story, rather than in the service of good botany or good philosophy or good geography.

Lee is one of those guys who understands scouting reports, schemes and how we are guarding. You can be rest assured that he is going to follow everything to the minute detail of what he has to do. So, forget about the shooting part of it, we have just lost maybe our best overall defender.

So here, for example, on a very bright sunny day, the camera was able to capture the detail on the blouse, despite how strong the sunlight was.

shows its determination in detail regarding dismantlement of their nuclear programs.

No detail was too small for him to chase and to check, ... He was dedicated and brave and brilliant, and he had a deep strain of wisdom and conscience.

One of the things you'll notice about the sky is that he's taken a horizontal format: Holland is flat. The sky is rarely depicted other than as a foil to all of the detail in the foreground and his horizon line is often very low.

One detail could be the link that puts all the pieces together,

Obviously, we've indicated we will address our excess capacity. We've been pretty consistent in saying we'll share these plans in more detail in January. Nothing is finalized.

My experience is when moving online, they don't understand the detail and knowledge and discipline you must have across the entire spectrum of e-commerce. It is not a pretty sight the first couple of years. It's really a commitment. You have to have the patience and the dollars to wait it out.

Music rounds out a student completely. We're trying to educate a whole person here; it carries over into their other academics, the discipline, the attention to detail and the focus.

More detail to allow analysts to better understand and engage in forecasting would be great. There's a grey area where they're not providing guidance, but they can give us more information.

Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten.

Memoirs are - memory is - rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable - a detail that matters only if the diary is read.

Now that we are into late August, union leadership recognizes that it no longer can get away with avoiding a more aggressive meeting schedule, ... So it has found a different way to stall, talking about individual team situations that have already been discussed in detail over the course of the last five years and matters, quite frankly, that should have been discussed months ago if the union truly was interested in them.

Need I detail how silly this is? Home prices are up dramatically, and recently we see that mortgage rates have ticked up significantly.

Naturally the detail of the mechanism that will make this happen needs further work but it is great news for the country that both men's and women's teams are now certain to be represented at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Obviously, the involvement of the vice president raises profoundly disturbing questions, ... We need to understand in detail what role Mr. Cheney played in this despicable incident.

Nobody should have to have a security detail to keep them from driving 100 miles an hour.

If we have a concern it is in respect of the lack of detail on Vodafone's ability to extract cash from its investment as it matures.

I didn't like the way we weren't paying attention to detail at the end of the game like I know we can and I know we should.

I don't know what it is. I think we have to really focus a lot more and everyone has to pay attention to detail and really kind of buckle down and make sure we do everything.

I believe we have to go back in front of the City Council sometime soon to make a presentation, ... By that point we'll have renderings of building, plans for the field, a whole higher level of detail as well as some cost estimates for the construction.

But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.

Bush isn't going to follow the detail to the same extent (as Clinton), but he is helping to put his imprimatur on that process in an important week, when Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern put forward their latest proposals to revive the peace process,

But designers are adding a little more detail that are just really tastefully done, such as a kick pleat at the trunk of a skirt.

Basketball is his love. You can tell that with the way he comes to practice. He's so focused and so intense. He is so enthusiastic when it comes to basketball. You can tell by the way he prepares how much he loves the game. His attention to detail is incredible.

Because of the pace of daytime, you don't necessarily have time to work every detail of your character, so you have to bring a lot of it yourself.

I have always loved beautiful leather objects, especially the detail that goes into designing them both inside and out.

I have never, as far as I can remember, given one moment's thought as to whether any drawing that I was doing was for adults or children. I have never changed one conception or line or detail to suit the supposed age of the reader. And I have never, in what writing I have done, changed one word or phrase of text because I felt it might be over the heads of children. I have never, I hope, Insulted the intelligence of any child. And with God and my publishers willing, I promise them that I never will.

I can't reply in detail but have furnished all details to them. There is no truth in the allegations and the present board officials only want to malign me.

I can't really criticize because I really don't know the fine line of detail that goes with officiating. Am I biased? Of course I'm biased. I always want it to go in Tampa Bay's favor. But sometimes it doesn't happen that way. And the officials have officials looking over their shoulder, too. So I'm sure they're calling it right down the middle.

If one person in a group of ten is missing the tip of his little finger, I will notice it almost immediately. This extreme attention to visual detail is not a virtue, just a fact of my person. It happens seemingly involuntarily and strikes me as neither good nor bad.

I explained in detail that I was trying to protect my sources. That's job No. 1 in a case like this, ... I hunkered down. I'm in the habit of keeping secrets. I didn't want anything out there that was going to get me subpoenaed.

He doesn't leave any detail uncovered, so when you play a game, you feel confident and comfortable with any situation. He knows that winning teams just react on the field, instead of thinking, because of practicing things over and over and over.

There is a greater level of detail (in the new plan). There is also a section centered on implementation strategy.

There is no evidence that what we have here is a willful disregard of the rules. What we have is some cases of lack of attention to detail and some questions about the vagaries of classification rules.

He's a ball mover. It's not that our offense has been so slow ... we ran the same stuff when he was in the game and looked pretty good. Moving, cutting, being sharp, understanding how hard you've got to play, tighten every possession up, pay attention to detail ... he does that as well as anybody we have, if not better.

Hubble's exceptional pointing capabilities combined with the wonderful performance of its instruments allow scientists to see the universe in finer detail than ever before. It is that clear vision that makes these types of images possible.

I admit I did it wrong. I was new in town and I really didn't detail it enough.

He knows what's going to happen out there because his attention to detail is so great. Because he has great control of the game, ... as long as you're not turning the ball over and doing stupid stuff, ... you've got a good chance to win almost every game. We keep the score low, defend well, and that's the Rick Carlisle style. That's why he's in the playoffs all the time.

Just one day after arrival, we are already experiencing the hot, dynamic environment of Venus. We will see much more detail at an unprecedented level as we get over 100 times better resolution as we get closer to Venus, and we expect to see these spiral structures evolve very quickly.

Joel did a great job as a graduate assistant here and has gone on to cut his teeth in the coaching profession. He's a detail guy with a lot of energy, and we're thrilled to have him back at Purdue.

It is going to be a bear. Every team going over there has a feeling that they can win it. The teams that guard and execute and pay attention to detail are going to be the teams that win.

I think we'll be able to go into that in full detail and shed an awful lot of light on their rationale as well as ours as soon as we get this before the public,

It is obviously disappointing when a decision like this has to be made. We are not prepared to go into detail but the breaches were considered sufficiently serious to bring about this action.

I think that I have pretty high expectations on all levels. Our sport is one where it is all about hard work. Talent can only take you so far. Attention to detail is extremely important.

It is labor intensive and detail intensive. You've got to put your heart and soul into it.

It is highly unlikely that the sort of detail that is needed will be agreed by April not just because there is a lot of it and it's technical but because the major players are still holding back, waiting for the other ones to move first.

It is a simplification of the system but the detail is still unclear. The only certainty is that in the short term it will produce more work for employment lawyers.

It is a player-friendly scheme, but at the same time the expectation level is very high and the attention to detail is very high.

I think there's some concern there. We're not being as aware and as attentive to detail as we probably should be. It seems like we're giving up at least one every game and we're going to have to change that.

I think the resolution involved in the high-def, Blu-ray image demands we pay attention to every detail to a level we've never seen before. The audiences have to believe everything they're seeing. As viewers, we're all so experienced and so much smarter than we realize. With Blu-ray, there will be less tricking of the eye.

I think detail is just paying attention... Would she say that? Would he say that? Why is he saying that? That's the detail.

Our team excels in the playoffs. A lot of it has to do with preparation; the coaches put in countless hours in on video. And then it comes down to detail and discipline.

Our road map will detail how we will integrate this new member of the suite going forward.

Our Web site offers the kind of information and attention to detail that our members need from an owners' association. It also provides the public with a complete picture of IAHI and all the services and programs that we offer.

Our would-be presidents think that Monrovia is the whole of Liberia. None of them has taken time off to tell us in detail how Liberia or our county will be developed.