Quotes of: Detailed Keyword

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.

Otto Hahn

Because my life is empty window of nothingness punctuated by meaningless details of totally mundane non-events.

Drain You

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction

When the basic status of a theory is clear, and all that needs to be cleared are details, you can collaborate. But if the main structure of a hypothesis isn't established, and you want to change the paradigm - like it was the case in the 1960s - it's...

Peter Higgs

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

T. E. Lawrence

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

Fredrik Bajer

It's when you stop planning every last detail that you discover the fun in life.

The Wedding Day

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Walden and Other Writings

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

Evelyn Underhill

He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further.

Samsa in Love

My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.

Robert Klein

On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.

Timothy Noah

Life is unpredictable. We can not tell will happen in a minute. We have no control of tomorrow and it's details. Live a careful life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Without knowing every single detail in a man’s life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

Rohinton Mistry

I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.

Rick Riordan

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.

Alfred Russel Wallace

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

Eminem

Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.

Edward M. Lerner

I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

Brooke Langton