Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stanley

If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

Edward Gibbon

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

Norman Finkelstein

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.

Richard Rhodes

Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.

What we're seeing right now is most likely stage one, with other details to come in the near future.

Jami Attenberg

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

Benny Goodman

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.

What makes life most difficult is the media intrusion, ... I think the public has gotten more and more greedy for the intimate details of their lives. These people are exposed to scrutiny 24 hours a day. We feel we have a right to know. We feel it's in the public interest. Even pop stars get more privacy. We just want to know every last detail. They are living in a goldfish bowl. And it never goes away.

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.

It's been really interesting for me ... to share in the experience with someone who is seeing the quilt for the first time. Just how surprised they are by the number of quilts and also by the detail and the love that people put into each quilt. Each time I see someone who's never seen it, who's seeing it for the first time, moves me.

It's just the work of the shape and detail of how we finish it and it should work for every type of face.

Kathleen Blanco

A lot of the details are not yet identified, but we want it as liberal as possible, ... We want it to work for re-employing our people.

They said they had a tree that was a moon tree, but they had no details about it. I never heard of it, so I sent some messages to the NASA history office.

It's not something we've reviewed in detail yet.

It's the product of a lot of detailed discussions. I think it's fair.

There were some final details to sort out.

The reports will detail where we are today and where we are going.

The replacement took place under a detailed plan over quite a long period of time.

It's about details of maps, details of roads, about borders, details about refugees, about Jerusalem,

It was a very exciting game to play and to watch. Every single detail counted. Every steal. Every rebound made a difference in this game.

Bruno Heller

It was important to us to get the facts right, but more important the spirit of the times, to be very precise about this moment in history. It was important to get the fine detail right so that you felt that you were in a real world.

Bobby Burns

It's a very slow, detailed process involving a lot of layers of government, ... It would take a lot of groundwork. It would take a lot of years to accomplish.

The more details we're given then the easier it is to get things back to their owners,

Details will be released as soon as it is possible to do so without jeopardizing a successful outcome to the investigation.

James Marsters

Details in the mcguffins had to be worked out, but it was there. It was a good idea. I'm not going to tell you, because I didn't think of it.

Details around how the incident occurred, how much was stolen and who did it are under police investigation.

Details are still being ironed out, but appropriate plans will be provided to the employees who are impacted.

detailed report about similar episodes in Sicily recently.

A number of films ... have taken a story that may not seem so fresh, but they made it fresh because of their level of detail and nuance.

These negotiations are dragging on and even issues that are reported as settled details are not working out to our liking.

Rafael Benitez

The small details are the difference and maybe we should have had a penalty or even two penalties.

Darius Kasparaitis

Practices are completely different. We work hard and we concentrate on the details we have to do in the game.