368 Quotes About Details

  • Author Jack Levin
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    We make celebrities out of serial killers. They're glamorized and romanticized. People forget about the gruesome details of their crimes.

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  • Author Joshua Lederberg
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    As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

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  • Author Rachel Lashford
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    Before we see significant uptake, operators need to sort out predictable costs. There are flat monthly charges, but they tend to have a usage limit of 1 Gigabyte. Those details need to be sorted out.

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  • Author Geoff Mulgan
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    Young people who were relaxed about posting every detail of their life on Facebook become a lot less relaxed when they realise just how transparent their life has become to future employers.

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  • Author Haruki Murakami
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    I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I'm not too familiar with the geography of nineteenth century London, for instance, but I still enjoy reading Dickens.

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  • Author Henri Matisse
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    Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive.

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  • Author Ian McEwan
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    How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.

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  • Author James Marsters
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    Details in the mcguffins had to be worked out, but it was there. It was a good idea. I'm not going to tell you, because I didn't think of it.

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