Details Quotes

We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail.

The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a gauge of our impoverishment in time.

I can't think of anything I'd rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life.

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

These are the kind of things I always zero in. When I was in Rwanda, it was the same thing. You're always zeroing in those details. Not just always the bodies, but what makes up the human being.

I feel like creating things without getting too hung up on little details, and paying more attention to the importance to the concept itself, is the way to move forward.

Large enterprises make the few rich, but the majority prosper only through the carefulness and detail of thrift.

Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.

In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.

Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.

Success is in the details.

Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ recital to anyone who will listen.

My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict.

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.

You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.

I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?

It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with honestly, with sufficient clarity, and detail.

When you're working on a record, I find it's better not to share details during that process. Because, until it's done, it can change.

Do your homework in advance about the actual travel details so transportation issues do not define your holiday.

I'm obsessively detail-oriented.

I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up.

To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.

Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been a composer. But being a composer is not something you can't help.

We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.

The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.

The evil always comes from details.

The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

Details are the Life of Prose.

No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

Now apparently I'm told that every celebrity is expected to honour the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a prime-time reality show.

Details create success.

To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of differently colored, simlarly priced objects.

As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

Depression is always in the details.

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his technique! To just let him lead one by the hand.

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.

Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things were and are, you hardly need anything else.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening.

I don't want you to understand the details. To feel how it feels, you just have to be on the ground with the people. That's where photojournalists have a lot of magic.

I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.