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Quotes About Details

inheritance is a powerful tool for reducing complexity because a programmer can focus on the generic attributes of an object without worrying about the details. If a programmer must be constantly thinking about semantic differences in subclass implementations, then inheritance is increasing complexity rather than reducing it.
~ Steve McConnell
I love intimate details like lingerie, something like a gorgeous silk stocking or exquisite slipper.
~ Austin Scarlett
I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.
~ Nina Garcia
The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
~ Ruth Rendell
May you find INSPIRATION in the big picture, but may you find LOVE in the details.
~ Adrienne Maloof
The parts of your brain that generate anxiety are more interested in the fact that there is a plan than in the details of the plan.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
God was not in the details for Jefferson; he was in the sky and stars.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
Several paragraphs of dense text began to scroll across the screen, an unreadable blur of legalese outlining all the details of enlistment. It would have taken hours to read it all, and then I still probably wouldn't have understood a word of it.
~ Ernest Cline
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.
~ Ernst Toller
If we don't know where we are going, any road will get us there. But if we have a destination - in this case a life lived to the glory of God - there is a well-marked way, the Jesus-revealed Way. Spiritual theology is the attention that we give to the details of living life on this way. It is a protest against theology depersonalized into information about God; it is a protest against theology functionalized into a program of strategic planning for God.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Apart from childhood and crisis, prayers have a way of being abstracted from the homely and distinctive details that are part and parcel of our ordinary and daily life.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Story is the most adequate way we have of accounting for our lives, noticing the obscure details that turn out to be pivotal, appreciating the subtle accents of color and form and scent that give texture to our actions and feelings, giving coherence to our meetings and relationships in work and family, finding our precise place in the neighborhood and in history.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.
~ Andrew Pyper
It doesn't really matter what someone's hair looks like or if the sound is perfect. Every director who's made a couple of movies knows that, because you can replace the sound. Or, like, any one shot is not that important, because they all add up together.
~ Zal Batmanglij
Generally, when it comes to covers, I try and add elements that may not take your immediate attention but really become important the more you look at them.
~ Lee Bermejo
As Leslie began to fill in the picture, adding images and details to the flat sentences in the police reports, she was also bringing something more: her personality and the limits of her understanding. She has always wanted to be liked, especially by the popular athletes, and what happened in the basement hadn't changed that.
~ Bernard Lefkowitz
I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.
~ Bill James
I am grateful to both Impact Wrestling and the WOW executives for working out the details to allow me to pursue my dream of competing at the highest levels within our industry.
~ Tessa Blanchard
It's the little details I love. How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will, too. How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. These are the things which help a world come alive.
~ Michelle Paver
I think, as a writer, you see the big picture, and as an actor, you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details.
~ Richard Dormer
With every episodic, there's a learning curve where writers try to find the voice of the characters by way of the actors. Many details are found along the way. On 'Caprica,' although the franchise already existed, we were creating an entirely new world full of new characters.
~ Sasha Roiz
One thinks of nothing,' he continued; 'the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes.
~ Gustave Flaubert