Details Quotes - Page 14

I swear. Everyone here gets so worked up over the most minute details. ~Mayuri Kurotsuchi

Various polls have indicated that approximately 10% of Americans (25 million people) have seen them at close range so that details of the structure of the object can be discerned.

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate — disgusting behavior!

I can't think of anything I'd rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life.

When I look at my career, the bulk of it has been television, and I love working in television. But there's a speed at which you do it. You're doing seven to ten pages a day on a series, and it's hard to feel like you're doing the detail-oriented work that I like to do.

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

When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often true of snapshots in which no pattern of salient shapes organizes the mass of vague and complex nuances.

Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.

Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

Rose and Dimitri moved almost as one entity, like a matched pair of wolfes or lions, both wary and deadly as they studied their surroundings, taking no detail or person for granted.

An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right.

The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.

Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.

By using the systems archetypes we can learn how to “structure” the details into a coherent picture of the forces at play.

Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.

One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time.

The truth of the story lies in the details.

The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.

Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch of ground. Never has there been a parchment of law, however fair, which prevented one crime. Never has there been a scroll, even such as the one I hold, which so much as a penny or produced a single word of acclamation. Action, alone, is the tinder which ignites the map, the parchment, this scroll, my plans, my goals, into a living force. Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success. I will act now.

You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.