Best 804 quotes in «details quotes» category

I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.

I'll negotiate with toughness, and with great attention to detail to get the best possible deal for Britain. It's only when we are outside the European Union that we can at last bring those numbers [of migrants] under control in the way that the public want.

I look for ambiguous messages to illustrate...I like some detail but not too much detail.

I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.

I love intimate details like lingerie, something like a gorgeous silk stocking or exquisite slipper.

I love the idea of a shield law; I don't know of any journalist who doesn't love the idea of a shield law. It's all in the details. Some of the shield laws that were floating around sounded good, but when you looked at them, exceptions or exclusions or broadness in the language really invited some problems.

I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news. Every known detail of the origin of mankind is extremely important to such a specialist as Dr. Mondrick, but it doesn't interest the man in the street - not unless it's dramatized.

Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.

I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?

I mean, I think it would humanize Hillary [Clinton] incredibly to detail how she was involved in the family charitable organization.

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

I'm down with Spotify. I don't know all the financial details but generally it's a great resource.

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

I'm tempted to do everything. And sometimes I think, "Oh, come on. You can stick that detail somewhere.

I'm interested in really particular details, ideas, thoughts, and emotions, yet it's defused with performance, where you can play with hiding things, or be more confrontational about something shielded. There is this process of layering in performance.

I miss the days when faith was discussed in public and not the most intimate details of our personal lives.

I'm not one that just throws music out there to keep it coming, and all that. I believe in the craft, and the time it takes to really nurture something and put a lot of effort into the details.

I'm saying is that I hope that you drill in with the same detail with his [Donald Trump] team as you're drilling in with ours.

I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.

I'm fussy. I'm stubborn. I want all the little details and I don't want to look like anyone else - that to me is very important.

Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.

I'm working on the intricacies of details of maneuvers that he still doesn't even know the names of.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

In a major matter no details are small.

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.

In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.

I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.

In moviemaking, you learn to pay attention to detail, because so much is in the detail. And when you're shooting, you try to be very alert to what's going on, even if you're tired.

In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen as a witness to the world around us; the event, in its natural activity, generates an organic rhythm of forms.

In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

I need to be spontaneous sometimes. Sometimes I find that the little detail or nuance that you add to it that's based on what's happening at the time that's not very rehearsed often ends up feeling like the funniest thing.

In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal.

In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called; where they lived; and whether they were beggars or people of substance.

In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists after it leaves one body and before it reaches the other ... and if we admit this medium as an hypothesis, I think it ought to occupy a prominent place in our investigations, and that we ought to endeavour to construct a mental representation of all the details of its action, and this has been my constant aim in this treatise.

In German. I'm more sensitized to the details, to the emotions. In English, I wouldn't detect as much nuance.

...in life it is often the tiny details that end up being the most important.

In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.

In my group of friends, I was always the one who remembered everything. The stories, the boys my friends and I dated, all the details. So I think a part of me was always filing them away, although at the time I wasn't sure why.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

In reading, one should notice and fondle details.