Tails Quotes - Page 8

"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all!

I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details.

Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.

Every little detail to every little movement must be perfect. Perfection in movement.

Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.

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

There is no magic in magic, it's all in the details.

I always tell up-and-coming DJs you have to really love what you do and find that interest to drive you. It requires so much attention to detail, and it takes up a lot of your time. You hear a song, and there are so many little pieces that make that song work. It requires a lot of patience, diligence and resilience.

Heads I win, tails I don’t lose much.

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country - the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail, and the relaxed phase when one feels no longer an observer of the exotic, but a participator in the rhythm of daily life.

We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.

What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.

While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he uses his ears, tail, eyebrows, various rumbles and grunts, the slant of his great cold nose or a succession of heartrending sighs to get his meaning across.

"Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up and realize he had been describing the examiner's reflection.

Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn't have the best eye for detail - and, for a Jew, he doesn't have the best eye for retail, either.

Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.