Details Quotes - Page 38

• Men have got more of a discerning eye. They appreciate cut and details, things that aren't so obvious. They like things that have cachet and gentlemanliness.

  John Galliano

  Eye, Cutting, Men

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• I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.

  David Byrne

  Color, Sky, White

  "Fictional character: Narrator". "True Stories", www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Cutting, Editing

  Willa Cather (2013). “Willa Cather On Writing”, p.67, Knopf

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• The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, - that the Gospels cannot be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, - that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eye-witnesses; - by such reflections as these... I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.

  Charles Darwin

  Eye, Men, Reflection

  Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley (1983). “Autobiographies”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. You notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding.

  Xavi

  Player, Class, Understanding

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• I'd like to drill in a little more detail into one aspect of cutting which is particularly close to me and that's dialogue editing. It is a vital part of editing especially in animated film, but in the end it is usually completely transparent to the audience. The vocal performances are reported for over several years and the actors are very rarely in recording studios together. That's why the editor has got to all these different performances and edit them together to create the illusion of spontaneity and real action.

  Lee Unkrich

  Real, Cutting, Editing

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• Photography has definitely been my favorite way to remember things. At least for me that’s how my brain processes things, of memories or moments - if I take a picture of it I can remember so many more details. I think it’s about choosing the exact picture in my head that signifies or symbolizes a moment - almost as if you’re using film. It’s almost archaic.

  Dianna Agron

  Photography, Memories, Thinking

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• The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Light, Fog, Delicacy

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• In the dead silence, all the details suddenly fell into place for me with a burst of intuition. Something Edward didn't want me to know. Something that Jacob wouldn't have kept from me.... It was never going to end, was it?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Silence, Intuition, Vampire

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• I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?

  Ayn Rand

  New York, Sunset, Men

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.423, Penguin

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• When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is too wonderful to be called an "illusion" unless we whisper the word in amazement, as we might when witnessing the most astonishing magic trick. What could be more magnificent than this glorious universe, in all its multifarious extravagance? Its awesome vastness and delicate detail. Its impersonal precision and intimate intensity. Its harsh necessities and lush sensuality. This dream of life is truly marvelous.

  Timothy Freke

  Dream, Mean, Gnosis

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• A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an ideal mind, but it will help the actual mind to approximate that ideal.

  Harold Jeffreys

  Mind, Helping, Process

  Harold Jeffreys (1998). “The Theory of Probability”, p.421, OUP Oxford

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• I have this little neighbor next door. He comes over and tells me about playing Call of Duty, and he's talking about, 'Aw yeah, I slit this guy in the throat and then I stuck a grenade up this guy's ass.' He's describing it in all this detail, and that makes me uncomfortable. I don't think that's good for him.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Thinking, Playing Games, Doors

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• Attention to detail is the secret of success in every sphere of life, and little kindnesses, little acts of consideration, little appreciations, little confidences,. . . . they are all that are needed to keep the friendship sweet.

  Hugh Black

  Success, Appreciation, Sweet

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• The minister expressed appreciation for the offer, and our embassy in Uzbekistan will be following up in more detail with them

  Richard Boucher

  Appreciation, Uzbekistan, Ministers

  "U.S. offers help with Uzbek terror" by Elise Labott, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2004.

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• No one accuses the Gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He hasn't the time. He serves at least three jealous gods—his horse and all its saddlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Art, Horse, Military

  "The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling: All novels, short stories, letters and poems".

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• Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

  Iggy Azalea

  Fashion, Luxury, Bed

  "Ten Questions: Iggy Azalea". Interview with Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. December 18, 2012.

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• What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely....Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  People, Profound, Soul

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• Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to do so. Our system is quite good at producing reliable theorems that can be solidly backed up. It's just that the reliability does not primarily come from mathematicians formally checking formal arguments; it comes from mathematicians thinking carefully and critically about mathematical ideas.

  William Thurston

  Math, Thinking, Errors

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• We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape - angularity, granularity, about every variety of rock.... The colors - well.... There doesn't appear to be too much of a general color at all; however, it looks as though some of the rocks and boulders are going to have some interesting colors to them. Over.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Rocks, Color, Interesting

  "Man Walks on Another World". National Geographic article, ngm.nationalgeographic.com. December 1969.

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• Lincoln's reference to government of the people, by the people, for the people is a generally satisfactory definition of democracy. I say generally because when it comes to fair and workable details, democracy fails to completely meet the criteria enunciated by Lincoln by a rather wide margin.

  George Aiken

  Government, People, Democracy

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• Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. The photographers eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimeter. He can modify perspectives by a slight bending of the knees. By placing the camera closer to or farther from the subject, he draws a detail — and it can be subordinated, or he can be tyrannized by it.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Moving, Eye, Perspective

  "The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers".

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• The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a whole chapter on him. Perhaps not a whole chapter but a resonable paragraph, at any rate. There was so much else to include, and one must be firm in cutting out details. He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: `The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.'

  Chinua Achebe

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Things Fall Apart ch. 1 (1958)

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• The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.

  Karl Marx

  Circles, Understanding, Credit

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• In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details.

  Jane Jacobs

  Devil, Outcomes, Wretched

  "Dark Age Ahead". Book by Jane Jacobs, Chapter Seven, Unwinding Vicious Spirals, p. 153, 2004.

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