Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

Art Bell

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.

We're working on something for next week, but the details we're still kinda hammering out.

Jim DeMint

While the exact details of the trip are not released until after the fact due to security concerns,

We haven't received any details of the auction, ... We'll be happy to see just how they intend to do it.

It is far less in several respects than what we were seeking, but it is something we've accepted. The details may shift. Let the two governments work it out.

The problem is you can't share these details when you have operational leads. It takes time.

It forces us to work out the other details involved with the spaceport in terms of the state land office, which actually owns the land.

We have sufficient petitions in hand and we have finished the details for our announcement tour.

We're after details for the identification of those sponsors.

We don't have all the details on this incident right now. Obviously this is a very tragic and complicated situation.

We don't have the details but we can be outraged in general.

I don't remember the details (of the presentation), ... but I know I was impressed.

Larry Walker

I don't think it's been officially announced. You're hearing it from my mouth. It's official. I'm retired. I don't know what the details are in making it official. Don't know, don't care. It just means I have to be on TV again.

Pierre Berbizier

For us it will now become fundamental to improve the small details. It is these details that make the difference between top sides and sides like ours.

For most states in the region, unemployment rates moved lower and job growth higher as manufacturers, finance firms and energy providers details growth. However, telecommunications remained weak and construction cooled in January.

He refused to elaborate; he wouldn't give any details as to what that meant.

Having a third party know all of the news you read is troublesome enough. It gives away key details about your beliefs, your opinions and your interests.

Robert Esche

He's a great man. I like him a lot. Obviously, stuff will come out. I don't really know the details of it. But I do know he is a good man.

Ann Beattie

Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live.

John Mara

He said he was very much in support of our project, but that he needed some time to familiarize himself with the details of the deal.

He's a long ways from where he was two weeks ago - and he's getting better every day. He's really athletic, strong, big and he can close. He's got the tools. He just has to learn all the little details of the position. But he's getting there.

Roger Clemens

just to try and look at the details of everything that happened.

We are gaining information on the differences and similarities between viral mechanisms and eukaryotic mechanisms. Getting to the molecular details of these gets to the possibility of learning one mechanism versus the other so you can try and stop (the virus from attacking) the human cell.

John Hume

He knows details about the machine ... this is model X and why. That shows a really involved collector.

I don't know all of the details yet. Put me at that table, and I will be your voice.

Pat Roberts

I can't really tell you some of the more specific details that would make your eyebrows even raise higher,

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.

The plunge in durable goods orders in January is entirely due to volatility in transportation. The underlying details of this report are much stronger than the headline.

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

Bjarne Stroustrup

And no, I'm not a walking C++ dictionary. I do not keep every technical detail in my head at all times. If I did that, I would be a much poorer programmer. I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.