Tails Quotes - Page 9

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.

Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.

And no, I'm not a walking C++ dictionary. I do not keep every technical detail in my head at all times. If I did that, I would be a much poorer programmer. I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.

If you look at coastlines, if you look at that them from far away, from an airplane, well, you don't see details, you see a certain complication. When you come closer, the complication becomes more local, but again continues. And come closer and closer and closer, the coastline becomes longer and longer and longer because it has more detail entering in.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.

Im share a lot of details, but 98 percent of my life is still private.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

People have criticized me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are.

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.

You don't know why God has put that person in your path. It's not a coincidence. He's strategically lined up every person, every detail and every step of your life. Now do your part--don't miss an opportunity to do good for others.

I miss the days when faith was discussed in public and not the most intimate details of our personal lives.

The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.

Faithfulness to principle is only proved by faithfulness in detail.

Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality

I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.

When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.

Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.

FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

Graffiti is a lot easier than the canvas actually, because it's such a large format, so when you're going to such a thin detail, it's not that thin in the realm of things because it's such a big wall. This would take a small paint brush of detail, but on a huge wall, if that's the size of a building, the thinnest detail is still that big, it's a quick spray. Spray paint is easiest for me. I love spray paint.

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

One way or the other, we?ve always got to chase our tails.

Everything is important- that success is in the details.