Quotes About Nitty-gritty

It is fundamentals that matter --- not the trappings. (Alice Cunningham)

The general population isn't interested in the nitty-gritty of cars.

At WSX the message was loud and clear consistently, even as a rookie signing a contract and kind of talking about things and getting into the nitty-gritty details. I felt like I was always given a lot of respect and in fact sometimes I thought they were almost tooting my own horn too loud I thought it was almost silly.

People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.

down to brass tacks. What have you

I find infidelity interesting because it's so revelatory about people. It's this really silent thing. Everyone acknowledges it as a general practice, but nobody likes to go beyond that, to get down to the nitty-gritty.

Lorenz was the charismatic, flamboyant thinker—he didn't conduct a single statistical analysis in his life—while Tinbergen did the nitty-gritty of actual data collection.

Any skills that I have, I couldn't really make money with them. I would like to think that maybe I would be doing something in psychology or something of that nature because I love that vein of medicine - the getting down and getting nitty-gritty.

The Bible is written for the rough realities of life, the nitty-gritty of the here and now.

To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.