Quotes About Detail

But when something is easy to imagine, it's often because you've failed to imagine it in sufficient detail.

Or perhaps the truth was that there is no Fate, no pattern, nothing at all except a tired man looking back and forgetting everything but this and that detail which the very act of memory composes into a fate. Eschenburg, remembering his childhood, wondered whether Fate was merely a form of forgetfulness.

In drawing a wall, he said, "the artist who must copy every small stone and each stroke of whitewash has missed his calling: he should have become a bricklayer.

we can remind ourselves of the reasons to strive for good style: to enhance the spread of ideas, to exemplify attention to detail, and to add to the beauty of the world.

Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

So his actual death itself was less of an event than a final sad detail.

In a way the philosopher and the barber are of the same guild; the barber cuts hair and the philosopher splits hairs.

A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you get a Shakespeare quote wrong in a magazine or newspaper."

The essence of beauty is in variety and surprise, in richness, ambiguity, and intricacy of detail.

found myself gazing in wonderment at my surroundings. Even now, I couldn't help but be awed by the scope and detail of Tolkien's imagination. After almost a century, artists and storytellers and programmers were still drawing inspiration from his creation.

To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].

Really, for an actor, it's all about remembering a lot of stuff - and keeping the moustache on.

My grandfather wanted to remind us that freedom of expression is the fundamental ingredient for democracy, and all the rest is detail. It is the scaffolding around which every other freedom is based.

Stop-motion is sort of twitchy; you can feel the life in it. If we were to remove that completely, there'd be no point in it.

Once, I had to clip a jacket back to take a picture, and after they were done I forgot to remove the clip until someone noticed.

I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.

We are all living in a techno-dystopian fantasy, the Internet-connected portals we rely on rendering the world in all its granular detail and absurdity like Borges's 'Aleph.'

I like giving the audience a lot of stuff to look at, and rewards for repeated viewings and paying attention.

Guys pay extra attention to detail. They are looking at every little thing on the scouting report.

When you have a watch on, it just sets everything off. It's the icing on the cake when it comes to your entire look.