I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there.
~By Jeff Hawkins ~
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
~By Carl Clinton Van Doren ~
Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.
~By Guido van Rossum ~
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
~By Louis Kronenberger ~
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.
~By Emily Carr ~
Success is the sum of details.
~By Harvey S. Firestone ~
It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.
~By George Stigler ~
Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
~By Alan Perlis ~
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.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it.
~By David R. Ellis ~
Caress the detail, the divine detail.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
We're going to break a story that there are people on the staff on the 9-11 Commission that didn't want the 9-11 Commissioners to know the details of Able Danger because of the potential to embarrass those commissioners.
~By Curt Weldon ~
I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.
~By Ted Allen ~
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
~By Roald Dahl ~
It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.
~By Henri Poincare ~
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
~By Helen Hayes ~
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.
~By Peter Matthiessen ~
We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20.
~By Zhang Ziyi ~
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
~By Edvard Munch ~
I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.
~By Rick Moody ~
I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.
~By John Hench ~
Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.
~By Utada Hikaru ~
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.
~By Laurie Anderson ~
The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.
~By David O. Selznick ~
When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.
~By Donna Tartt ~
I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I've got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do it, I like to have a writer detail what happens on a page, but not saying what happens in every scene.
~By David Lloyd ~
Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
~By Benjamin Britten ~
You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.
~By Sissy Spacek ~
I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
~By Otto Hahn ~
I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.
~By Julie Taymor ~
I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
~By Victoria Beckham ~
There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing.
~By George Eads ~
I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy... I can't get into minute details.
~By Dee Snider ~
Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~
I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.
~By Richard Foreman ~
In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.
~By Ronald Harwood ~
If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.
~By Ethel Rosenberg ~
I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.
~By Marie Osmond ~
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
~By Heraclitus ~
Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.
~By Donella Meadows ~
We've played producers almost our entire lives in everything else we've created. But when working on a feature and even dealing with something like Warner Bros. or another production company, or other details that you can worry about - we definitely learned a lot.
~By Mary-Kate Olsen ~
Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.
~By Anthony Holden ~
The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
~By Tadao Ando ~
The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.
~By Charles Eames ~
In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
~By Lou Holtz ~
Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.
~By James Mill ~
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
~By William Morris ~
The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
~By V. S. Naipaul ~
I remember everything, even the dates. But I don't want others to remember the details, just the image.
~By Gloria Grahame ~
With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film - enormous detail paid to that. I wasn't thinking video, because I didn't know how it was going to turn out.
~By Alex Winter ~
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.
~By David Rockefeller ~
Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
~By Thomas Bailey Aldrich ~
I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months.
~By Jim Walton ~
Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost.
~By Kenneth Koch ~
It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
~By Sally Ride ~
We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.
~By Glenn Close ~
I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
~By Alma Guillermoprieto ~
The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.
~By Kate Fox ~
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
~By T. E. Lawrence ~
I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
~By Pat Morita ~
Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.
~By Willie Sutton ~
Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't able to do it because of the time element.
~By Joe Shuster ~
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
~By Ovid ~
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
~By Niklaus Wirth ~
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.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
~By Laurie Lee ~
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
~By Alexander Fleming ~
A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.
~By Heather Donahue ~
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
~By Benny Goodman ~
When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.
~By Alexander Kluge ~
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.
~By Edward Carpenter ~
All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
~By Daniel Day Lewis ~
Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.
~By Chiaki Kuriyama ~
The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.
~By Eric Cantor ~
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
~By Susan Sontag ~
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
~By John George Nicolay ~
Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.
~By Ernst Toller ~
I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
~By Anne Tyler ~
I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
~By Rita Dove ~
I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.
~By Mike Thompson ~
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