Quotes About Detail

That is what makes us love beautiful things: they have a perennial appeal, and hearing about them a second and third time can be even better than the first. The first time you hear it but not all of it. When you hear it again you savor every detail. Thus, when Avraham David spoke about our Master, the distinguished Av Beit Din, he would go on and on about things we already knew, but both the speaker and the listener felt as if they were only now hearing the real gist of it for the first time.

a few brown leaves are stuck to the outside of the glass like leather tongues.

William sits opposite her, drinking water from a Murray's glass with a trace of lipstick on the rim. His fingers hold the glass, his other hand lies on the table, his neck comes out of his shirt collar, which is light green, and on top of that is his head. His eyes are blue and he has two of them. This is the sum total of William in the present tense.

Looking closer can make something beautiful

I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.

I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event.

All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.

A lot of the time I tend to overlook the music because I'm listening to how it's produced.

she had violated one of the basic tenets of any competent cook: she had purchased a turkey without comparing its size to the size of her oven.

I have omitted to give a detail of his words, from a notion that they would not interest the reader as they did me, and not because I have forgotten them.

We live stitch by stitch, when we're lucky. If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching. And maybe the stitching is crude, or it is unraveling, but if it were precise, we'd pretend that life was just fine and running like a Swiss watch. This is not helpful if on the inside our understanding is that life is more often a cuckoo clock with rusty gears.

We live stitch by stitch, when we're lucky. If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.

He had usually found children much less affected by death than adults. And it was a rare child indeed that was not inveterately inquisitive, and would have extracted from the servants every last detail that was to be had, or even invented and embroidered upon.

It was my own head, in semi-profile, carved skillfully from a fine piece of double-strata sardonyx so that the image was entirely white and remarkably detailed. The background was a pure and shining black.

The seam of the stocking along the end of her right

Because they don't want to be perfect, because only God is perfect, Indian people sew flaws into their powwow regalia. My family always sewed one yellow bead somewhere on our regalia. But we always hid it so that you had to search really hard to find it.

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.

When you're making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life.

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.

That's a snug fit," Thorn said. "What did you line it with?" "Oh, leather and some sheepskin," Hal said distractedly. He failed to notice Thorn's sharp look as he said sheepskin.

His next book, One Foot in the Grave, focused on his time working in the cemetery. It laid out in graphic detail every aspect of burying bodies, using Chad's firsthand experience. Later, murder investigators would comb through it to see if he had utilized his unusual expertise.

You cannot see the wood for the trees.

He told me that in the hallways at Versailles, there hung a faint, ever-so-faint smell of human excrement, "because as the chambermaids hurried along a tiny bit would always splash from the pots." Many years later I realized that he was half-remembering a detail from the court of Louis XV, namely that the latrines were so few and so poorly placed at the palace, the marquesses used to steal away and relieve themselves on stairwells and behind the beautiful furniture...

Every step, every stage and every layer of every ingredient matters to us at Tres Amigos Grill.