If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.
~By Jean-Marie Le Pen ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.
~By Donella Meadows ~
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 ~
The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.
~By David O. Selznick ~
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 ~
I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
~By Victoria Beckham ~
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 ~
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos.
~By Mordechai Vanunu ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.
~By Robert Morgan ~
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.
~By Steven Chu ~
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 ~
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.
~By Jay Roach ~
I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it.
~By Sean Bean ~
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 ~
I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
~By Alma Guillermoprieto ~
I don't really like to talk specifically about customers by name - but we work with nearly all the leading manufacturers of consumer products worldwide and at quite a detailed engineering level.
~By David Milne ~
The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.
~By Henry Villard ~
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 ~
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
~By Rita Dove ~
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 ~
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 ~
The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to capture the essence of the book, and if he feels that's been done, then he's not too particular about the details. I think that's why he's happy.
~By Lawrence Kasdan ~
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 ~
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
~By Daniel Day Lewis ~
Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.
~By Amy Winehouse ~
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 ~
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 ~
The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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 ~
My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
~By Adam Weishaupt ~
Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.
~By Hernando Cortes ~
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
~By Barbra Streisand ~
The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just 'cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It's legendary in our products.
~By Ron Johnson ~
Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~
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 ~
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 ~
Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.
~By David Chalmers ~
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 ~
I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.
~By Mariah Carey ~
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 ~
Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.
~By Art Bell ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.
~By Victor Francis Hess ~
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 ~
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.
~By Anton Seidl ~
My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.
~By Joan Miro ~
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 ~
We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
~By Pamela Hansford Johnson ~
People have criticised me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are.
~By Marion Berry ~
I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.
~By Blair Underwood ~
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
~By Jorge Luis Borges ~
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 ~
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 ~
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.
~By Christian Slater ~
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
~By Harrison Ford ~
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
~By Michael Korda ~
Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
~By Yuan T. Lee ~
Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
~By Heraclitus ~
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 ~
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
~By Andy Warhol ~
But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor.
~By Donald Johanson ~
We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail.
~By Steven Cojocaru ~
Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.
~By Albert Speer ~
I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details.
~By Crystal Chappell ~
All of us want to see the details of any legislative plan if there's going to be a legislative response, but Congress, I believe, is in the mood to do whatever it takes to win this war against terrorism.
~By Richard Shelby ~
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
~By Ronald Fisher ~
I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style.
~By Stephen Fry ~
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
~By Evelyn Underhill ~
For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.
~By Aimee Mann ~
A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
~By John Foster Dulles ~
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
~By John Wooden ~
Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.
~By William Feather ~
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 ~
Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.
~By Gerhard Schroder ~
With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.
~By John B. Larson ~
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
~By Albert Einstein ~
When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.
~By Claudio Reyna ~
I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.
~By Rick Moody ~
Details create the big picture.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
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