368 Quotes About Details

I think, ultimately, those little details come through, even if it's just in my head.

Ann Beattie is a writer for and of her time. Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live.

The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always fantastic with a significance crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.

Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.

Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live.

Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.

Not really knowing what the details are, it would probably be immense, ... and we would try to get the state to do it because of lack of resources.