Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Xenophon
John Paul Jones
Edgar Allan Poe
Edward Young
E. O. Wilson
Dorothy L. Sayers
All authors
Today's birthdays
1664 - Matthew Prior
1899 - Ernest Hemingway
1951 - Robin Williams
1911 - Marshall McLuhan
1926 - Karel Reisz
1980 - CC Sabathia
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Comedian
Astronaut
Saint
Mathematician
Inventor
Author
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Details Quotes
Details Quotes
In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.
Mark Bradford
Life
You
Change
Looking
Depend
Everything
Neighborhoods
City
Details
Constantly
Some
Observing
Around
Always
Your
Women work and feel like they have to take care of so many details. Sometimes they don't get much help from their husbands.
Mark Goulston
Work
Women
Sometimes
Care
Details
Husbands
Take
Take Care
Feel
Like
Get
Much
Help
Many
Even as a coach, sometimes you forget the little intricacies of the offense, the details of the routes, the timing of the footwork, and the timing of the offensive tackles with the different sets that they have.
Matt Nagy
You
Sometimes
Timing
Sets
Details
Footwork
Offense
Offensive
Forget
Different
Little
Coach
Even
Routes
As you try to tweak your sleep one way or the other, you might be, you might be doing great - you might do better at remembering details of an event, but you might end up being poorer at abstracting the gist or the rules associated with it.
Matthew Walker
Great
You
Better
Try
Other
Way
Rules
Details
One-Way
Remembering
Doing
End
Up
Being
Might
Poorer
Your
Tweak
Event
Associated
Sleep
Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.
Max McKeown
Better
Thrive
First
Bookstore
Way
Details
Online
Only
Rivals
Puts
Idea
Implemented
Because
Practise
Amazon
Than
Improve
Trying
Did
Any
Company
Grow
Keeps
Early
Before I write, I like to read obits in 'The Times' because they're well written, and I like the little details. It gets the energy going in the morning. I really like the obits of old Hollywood actors and actresses.
Megan Abbott
Morning
Old
Before
Energy
Details
Write
Written
Like
Well
Read
Because
Well-Written
Times
Gets
Going
Little
Hollywood
Really
Actor
Actress
Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.
Melissa Bank
Me
You
Creative
Mind
Met
Tell
Details
Boring
Instantly
Most
Am
Person
Anyone
Ask
Mud
Turns
Fun
Ever
Basically
I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.
Mercedes Lackey
Work
Book
Writing
Events
Before
Broad
Details
Some
Finer
Outline
Know
Always
Begin
I was a police reporter, so I got into the worlds that I write about, and I think many of the details in my books come from those days.
Michael Connelly
Police
Think
Worlds
Books
Those
Details
About
Write
Days
Come
Got
Reporter
Many
The lack of closure in an unsolved case seems to have a sharpening effect on those left behind; the details remain vivid to them even years later, possibly because they've gone over them looking for answers so many times.
Michelle McNamara
Looking
Gone
Later
Those
Possibly
Details
Vivid
Case
Seems
Remain
Sharpening
Over
Because
Answers
Years
Effect
Left
Times
Lack
Behind
Closure
Them
Many
Even
When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.
Michio Kaku
Love
You
Simplicity
Beauty
Fall
Hundreds
Paper
Pencil
Out
Details
Come
Sheet
Because
Prove
Up
Crack
Get
Then
Pages
Theory
Elegance
I did go to the Alamo. Fascinating. A lot of details and nuances to the Alamo that are impressive.
Mike Leach
Details
Go
Lot
Impressive
Did
Fascinating
Nuances
By withholding critical details and stonewalling congressional inquiries, President Obama seems to be hiding whether or not he and others broke U.S. law by sending $1.7 billion in cash to Iran.
Mike Pompeo
Law
President
Others
President Obama
Broke
Hiding
Critical
Obama
Details
Cash
Seems
He
Withholding
Iran
Sending
Whether
Congressional
Billion
I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.
Mikhail Bakunin
Positive
Knowledge
Details
Developments
Am
Very
Any
Human
Inability
Human Knowledge
Large
Grasp
Large Portion
Conscious
Portion
If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.
Moby
Work
Love
Me
You
Heroes
Say
Says
Details
Something
Yes
Expect
Get
Just
Want
Anything
Ask
Working
Paid
I always like learning the small details about a subject.
Morgan Neville
Learning
Details
About
Small
Like
Always
Subject
I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.
Murray Gell-Mann
Physics
Details
Particle
Up
Keep
So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.
Nancy Horan
Together
Big
Research
Digging
Secret
Wildly
Details
Seductive
Thrill
Puzzle
Like
Historians
Historical
Process
Themselves
Then
Fun
Keep
'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.
Naomi Wolf
Society
Administration
Would-Be
Details
Seeking
Argued
Take
Open
Had
Advancing
Open Society
Steps
Always
Been
End
Close
Dictators
America
Bush
Bush Administration
Each
Each One
The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
Nate Powell
Truth
Truth Is
Positioning
Those
Out
Details
About
Directions
Issues
Brain
Lot
Itself
Very
Information
Prefer
Sketch
Much
Working
Page
Maps
Details matter. They create depth, and depth creates authenticity.
Neil Blumenthal
Matter
Details
Authenticity
Depth
Create
Creates
'True Detective' is a densely layered work with resonant details and symbology and rich characterization under the guise of one of the forms of this mystery genre. That's what we shoot for.
Nic Pizzolatto
Work
Rich
Resonant
Characterization
Guise
Details
Detective
Layered
Mystery
True
True Detective
Genre
Shoot
Forms
I find myself sick to death, tired of arguing about details with people who don't know basic facts.
Norman Davies
Death
Myself
Tired
People
Sick
Details
Find
About
Arguing
Facts
Know
Who
Basic
If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.
Oliver E. Williamson
Fashion
You
Believe
Inquire
Markets
Details
Operate
Then
Alan
I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.
Orhan Pamuk
Me
You
Thought
Partner
Imagination
Details
Somehow
Rituals
Write
Share
Always
Demon
Domestic
Where
Place
Separate
Should
Your
Sleep
I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
Otto Hahn
War
Poison
Prohibited
Prohibition
Details
Hague
Knew
Know
Terms
Did
Convention
Use
Load more quotes
No more details quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
Age
Ability
About
Also