Details Quotes
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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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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.
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Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
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I love intimate details like lingerie, something like a gorgeous silk stocking or exquisite slipper.
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I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
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Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.
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If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up.
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We distract ourselves with details. It's a way of coping.
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There is no magic in magic, it's all in the details.
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Jazz hadn't given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he'd told her enough that she knew it wasn't hearts and flowers. Well, except for the occasional heart cut from a chest. And the kind of flowers you send to funerals.
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Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.
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[E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.
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The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.
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A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.
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It seems that nearly every week there is a problem where information is leaked or computers hacked. I'm conscious of keeping my details as safe as possible. I might be old but I'm still bright and prefer to go into my local branch and see a face.
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Treating 'water' as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and plurality of reference. Scatter is in fact an inconsequential detail.
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I also grew to love Nancy Reagan in a certain way. I learned more - certainly I learned more bad stuff that I had known about in greater detail, but I also got a lot of empathy.
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The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.
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When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.
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The joint development and cross-licensing agreement ... let's us avoid quibbling about technical details and move forward quickly.
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Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.
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The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective.
