Details Quotes

My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.

It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.

Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.

Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.

Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I'm not a details person. I go for the big sweep.

I so admire great writing done quickly, with great detail.

I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

You’re not seriously going out again, are you?” “Seriously, yeah. Bowling. Her name’s Laura. If you want more details, you’re gonna have to download the video like everybody else.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

My UK fans are quite similar to the States but they pay much more attention to the details, that I like. They listen, party, and dance moving through the changing moods of the music with me.

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.

The minister expressed appreciation for the offer, and our embassy in Uzbekistan will be following up in more detail with them

In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.

It is my conviction that basic Reality is not all that perplexing. What seems difficult to assimilate are the manifold details of Reality, not its fundamental elements.

You'll be alive', he pointed out. 'That's what matters. Enjoy what you have, every little detail of wherever you are. Don't focus on where you aren't.

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.

I'm saying is that I hope that you drill in with the same detail with his [Donald Trump] team as you're drilling in with ours.

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trival details of a program - such as where its bugs are.

I don't know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details.

Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.

The details of what [Barack] Obama was going to do to the American health care system didn't matter. All that mattered was whether or not Obama was going to get it.

We're not hearing any Hollywood people talk about the Crime Family Foundation. We're not talking about any specific details about Hillary Clinton's work on the foundation.

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

Sometimes you think certain details are things that only you would notice, so it's a great thing to feel like you're not by yourself and people understand where you're coming from.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

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

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining.

It’s never something huge that changes the everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you’re busy focusing on the big picture.

People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details of life.

I'm a control freak except that I'm a good team player. So I obsess about the details of things but I also trust the team.

I look for ambiguous messages to illustrate...I like some detail but not too much detail.

... what would Poirot do? Poirot wouldn't flap around in a panic. He'd stay calm and use his little grey cells and recall some tiny, vital detail which would be the clue to everything.

I labour over details and whether a song should be a straight pop song form or exploratory. This is the curse with doing things by yourself.

Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating a large canvas and all the details.

For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.

So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.

We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail.

I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.

I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.

Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their acid outlines, but not places and people, not if you wish to retain them.

If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.

Maybe she, like me, would have loved the tiny details and inconveniences even more dearly than the wonders, because they are the things that prove you belong.

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.