368 Quotes About Details

  • Author Charles Jencks
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    If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.

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  • Author Cobi Jones
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    I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.

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  • Author Garth Jowett
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    I think there is a fatigue factor, no doubt about that. Everybody is waiting for things to heat up. What constitutes heating up, I don't know, except for the testimony of the two individuals perhaps. You can't hide the fact that all the details have come out over the last three years. There is nothing new. These guys have been hammered. People think they know what they need to know to have an opinion.

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  • Author Pamela Hansford Johnson
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    We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait (as we have conceived it), in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

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  • Author Penny Junor
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    What makes life most difficult is the media intrusion, ... I think the public has gotten more and more greedy for the intimate details of their lives. These people are exposed to scrutiny 24 hours a day. We feel we have a right to know. We feel it's in the public interest. Even pop stars get more privacy. We just want to know every last detail. They are living in a goldfish bowl. And it never goes away.

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