Details Quotes - Page 40

• My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!

  Marya Hornbacher

  Teacher, Students, Physics

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• Exegetical commentaries on the books of the Bible come in all shapes and sizes. Harold Hoehner's new volume on Ephesians has both a distinctive shape and a monumental size. Its value lies in its attention to detail and its full discussion of all relevant and disputed points. The volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students. Not all Hoehner's conclusions will command consent, but he has produced a stout and readable volume that all will turn to for guidance and help.

  Ralph P. Martin

  Lying, Book, Attention

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• You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hurt, Russia, History

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• I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

  Gavin Bryars

  Thinking, Pieces, Orchestration

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• It's pretty awesome. Mattel does such a great job with detail... I'm way better looking than Ken. Barbie's been hitting on my action figure the whole time. She actually asked the stocking people if she could hang next to me, but they said no - because it's PG.

  The Miz

  Jobs, Wwe, People

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• The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.

  Harry S. Truman

  People, Working Together, United States

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• Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his instrument. Whenever I read these lines a certain sadness enters my soul. I get so preoccupied with the details and pressure of my schedule, with the hurry and worry of life, that I miss the song of goodness which is waiting to be sung through me.

  Joyce Rupp

  Song, Writing, Sadness

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• I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.

  Michael Kenna

  Photography, Thinking, Elements

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• The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader, and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son. Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Father, Eye, Ambition

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.36, Prestwick House Inc

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• I am as much interested in the smallest detail as in the whole structure.

  Marcel Breuer

  Structure, Smallest, Whole

  Marcel Breuer (1963). “Buildings and Projects: 1921-1961”

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• Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-fashioned story-telling. Novik lures her readers into the streets of a bawdy seventeenth-century London with a nudge and a wink and keeps them there with her infectious love of detail and character. A raunchy, hugely entertaining read that will leave you at once satiated and hungry for more.

  Gail Anderson-Dargatz

  Character, Doe, Stories

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• There’s no romance in the details [of touring] anymore for me. But as soon as we’re walking onstage and until we walk off after the encore, I feel totally alive and completely satisfied with my work.

  Drew Holcomb

  Romance, Alive, Touring

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• The understanding eye sees the maker’s fingerprints. They are evident in every detail ... Leave Fingerprints.

  James Krenov

  Eye, Understanding, Makers

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• Have you ever considered how much pure stuff and nonsense surrounds this subject of interior decoration? Probably not. Almost everyone believes that there is something deep and mysterious about it or that you have to know all sorts of complicated details about periods before you can lift a finger. Well, you don't. Decorating is just sheer fun: a delight in color, an awareness of balance, a feeling for lighting, a sense of style, a zest for life and an amused enjoyment of the smart accessories of the moment.

  Dorothy Draper

  Fun, Smart, Believe

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• A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don’t really know what the final result will be before you have it.

  May-Britt Moser

  Perfection, Focus, Excellence

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• Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage in personal discussions with Members of Congress in which they can explain in detail the reasons for positions they advocate. Because our congressional representation is based on geographical boundaries, the lobbyists who speak for the various economic, commercial, and other functional interests of this country serve a very useful purpose and have assumed an important role in the legislative process.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Fashion, Important

  "To Keep the Lobbyist Within Bounds". The New York Times Magazine, February 19, 1956.

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• Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

  Ovid

  Heart, Feelings, Should

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• Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

  Melissa Bank

  Fun, Creative, Mind

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• I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

  Pat Morita

  Writing, Remember, Autobiography

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Army, Rivers, Bail

  Abraham Lincoln, Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1908). “The works of Abraham Lincoln ...”

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• Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Sex, Real, Track

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• Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Taken, Creativity

  Letter to his wife (October 21, 1907). "Letters on Cézanne". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1952.

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• I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.

  Ted Allen

  Beautiful, Thinking, America

  www.imdb.com.

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• Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

  Ruth Benedict

  Men, Constitution, Behavior

  RUTH BENEDICT (1934). “PATTERNS OF CULTURE”

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• One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.

  Lynne Truss

  Character, Judging, Fiction

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