The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable. – Havelock Ellis
If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up. – Hasan M. Elahi
I remember everything, even the dates. But I don’t want others to remember the details, just the image. – Gloria Grahame
He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him. – Henry Villard
When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation. – Herbert Hoover
Everything is up to the players and not the tactics. They’re just small details that can show you the way to play. – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
‘Cold Case Files’ and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can’t stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can’t fit on a bumper sticker. – Hal Sparks
Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families. – Hernan Cortes
Whatever the details of union may be, there’s no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe. – Gerhard Schroder
I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable. But I’m not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It’s just a matter of working out the details. – Hendrik Poinar
Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn’t see the details of a photograph until it was printed. – Harold Feinstein
I think that one of the things that I can do is I seem to have the ability to zoom in super tight for very small details, but then jump back for sort of that big picture perspective. And I think that ultimately, that’s one of my strengths, because you have – every detail matters. – Henry Selick
My thing was play as hard as you can, don’t be stupid, pay attention to details, and have enough guts in the clutch that you’re not afraid to make a play. Some things I thought were important for a young man to know. – Joe Paterno
Please, don’t use a cornice as a doorstop. At least put it somewhere where people will have to look up at it. Architectural details really ought to be displayed in the same relation to the viewer as they were originally intended. – Hugh Hardy
There’s virtually nothing made up in ‘The Immigrant.’ So much of the film came from somewhere in my family’s past. All the details are from my own family. – James Gray
I’ll meet someone on the street and blurt out my most intimate details. I think everybody secretly – or not so secretly – wants to be understood, and I just want to connect, you know? – Imogen Heap
Well, it’s because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful. – John Polkinghorne
My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details. – Joan Miro
A lot of guys I know are into this whole scarf trend. Not my thing. I prefer to update and personalize my style with the smaller things, like a pocket square or, again, with the shoes. All in the details. – James Marsden
Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers – and not to tell you about it. – Jonathan Zittrain
Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocean. They say, ‘My great-grandparents came from wherever… this is why we have this last name, why we do this thing at Christmas.’ All the details get watered down but don’t quite disappear. – Jhumpa Lahiri
Luxury lives in the finer details. It’s a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It’s a mint on your pillow before bed. – Iggy Azalea
We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multibillion dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children. – Beeban Kidron