I nitpick details.

The truth of the story lies in the details.

If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical constants occurring in these laws are finally expressed through the four independent basic constants, we will be able to...

When a problem threatens to engulf you, there’s nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.

Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best… life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.

The details of life have a tendency to interfere with the actual living of life.

A man must be honest enough to make mistakes, if not he’s just lying to you

Dinner was wonderful. There was a joint of beef, with roast potatoes, golden-crisp on the outside and soft and white inside, buttered greens I did not recognize, although I think now that they might have...

We want to let you use a Mac, or Windows PC, or iPad, or Android, without having to think about any of the technical details.

It’s a complex song, and it’s fascinating to watch the creative process as they went back and forth and finally created it over a few months. Lennon was always my favorite Beatle. [ He laughs...

Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice. Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice...

I’ve heard it said that God is in the details. It’s the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

Home is the school where we learn that love shows itself in the details.

Beware of the person who can’t be bothered by details.

The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary...

You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.

He hadn’t been this nervous since the last disastrous night at the improv, and he firmly told himself to calm down as he blotted at the tablecloth, glancing upwards to see Emma wriggling out of...

Fearful leaders love to stay in the morass of insignificant details. Because the details are usually unimportant, it is difficult to make a mistake of consequence. Of course, it’s impossible to do anything of consequence...

I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God’s providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.

the most important part of design is finding all the issues to be resolved. The rest are details

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

Is it possible that the national psychology emphasizing bigness has caused us to think only in those terms – to the detriment of the small things that have to be done if we are to...

Then Jip went up to the front of the ship and smelt the wind; and he started muttering to himself,”Tar; Spanish onions; kerosene oil; wet raincoats; crushed laurel-leaves; rubber burning; lace-curtains being washed–No, my mistake,...

Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing – lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital.

He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further.

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence....

Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!

The most tedious details are the most like dreams.

Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes.

Only Getting the A and Z with out the B through Y, leaves you SOL.

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful...

Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification–crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the more magnification we use, the more details are brought out, perfectly formed,...

Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.

You’ve got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it’s a novel, they know someone’s made it up and they know it’s not real,...

Somewhere int he flesh of the earth the dreadful earthquake shuddered, the tide walked to and fro on the leash of the moon, rainbows formed, winds swept the sky like giant brooms piling up clouds...

I have an obsession with details and pattern.

Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As...

I’m not sure why, but when a person expects something to last forever, they don’t notice the little things. It’s only when the clock is ticking all those little things add up and become bigger.

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calender that showed the wrong month....

Puedo deleitarme con el paladeo de las partes que han constituido un momento.

A vast field opened like a blossoming tulip, flowers blooming in the rippling airs of spring. High and frothy trees hugged air and sun as they gallantly cast a shade over the earth. On the...

Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

He was not used to being at a loss. Usually, he was the gentleman with the plan. Every little detail cataloged and put in its place. But now he had no place, and the details...