Tails Quotes - Page 5

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal. You require absolute control and professionalism.

But you cant get all hung up on details when you are trying to survive.

The left hemisphere is very interested in language; it communicates in words, it has a past, a present, and a future; it has a time component and it's all about details. The right hemisphere is more about the right now-right here experience where everything is an enormous collage of all the sensory systems flooding into our brains.

Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

The pictures come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worthwhile picture I paint it I do over the picture several times in my mind and when I am ready to paint it I have all the details I need.

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.

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.

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.

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

Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.

Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week

Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.

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

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian. [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are missing.