Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward T. Hall

One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.

We welcome the fact that he (Newell) has said that he is willing to provide names and details of people who have breached the rules. If he provides us with evidence we will investigate fully.

When she went into graphic detail about what he did to that little girl, I just lost it.

First is the price tag - it's huge, and the financing details are fairly complex. People are going to want to know how realistic is it that you are going to get this money.

Explore the red planet in three different ways: an elevation map shows color-coded peaks and valleys, a visible-imagery map shows what your eyes would actually see, and an infrared-imagery map shows the detail your eyes would miss. We hope you enjoy your trip to Mars.

Michael Chambers

We obviously want to get details about this before we know what to do.

David O. Selznick

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

Taylor Branch

But the more information that comes out, the more explicable and human historical events become. The details make the story real.

Matt Berninger

Once you do have a child, you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends, and it should be. I was really worried about even going there at all.

The governor's looking for a success, and the voters aren't going to measure a success by the size of the bond. The details aren't as important as the public image of him having a success.

Mahmoud Abbas

We need to renegotiate the details and get back to the real border,

The graphical editors are important. People don't always understand the different syntax. If you're concentrating on Web services, the goal is to make you productive without worrying about the details of how a WSDL file is put together.

Dick Armey

trying to fit the president's details into our principles, and it's a very difficult fit to be made. But I think we can get there.

David Christian

Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past.

We used a genetic fingerprint in the Y chromosome that was sufficiently detailed that you wouldn't expect very many men to have the same one.

We understood these flows in a general way, but the details were unclear, so we could not use them to make predictions before.

Stephen Hawking

Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

There are lands in eastern and northern Gaza still under occupation, ... We need to renegotiate the details and get back to the real border.

Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.

Dom Capers

We can't be a sloppy team and expect to play winning football. We have to be an efficient team with an eye to detail to win games.

Mark Rosenker

We don't want to get into the details of what he shared with us.

Mary Oliver

You, too, can be carved anew by the details of your devotion.

Terry Pratchett

Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance...

Terry Goodkind

Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not.

Langston Hughes

Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.

Lisa Gardner

God was in the details.

Phil Collins

I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.

Kent Nerburn

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

Katy Perry

I'm up to my hairline in planning. It's a lot, especially when you're a woman of detail,

Laurie Anderson

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.

Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism.

William James

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

William Feather

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.