Detail And Supporting Quotes & Sayings

Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people. — Fanny Fern

That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep. — Khaled Hosseini

So the middle-ground answer reminds us that reflection is continuous with practice, and our practice can go worse or better according to the value of our reflections. — Simon Blackburn

A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships. — John Gray

You can have this kind of love. You can have it.
You just grab it. Of course the problem with
having that love is that you can lose it, too. — Emma Forrest

It's only just beginning to occur to me that it's important to have something going on somewhere, at work or at home, otherwise you're just clinging on. [ ... ] You need as much ballast as possible to stop you floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one guy on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then? I've got to get more stuff, more clutter, more detail in here, because at the moment I'm in danger of falling off the edge. — Nick Hornby

There were many times during our career when he could've quit and done something else. But he knew that his power was with the Grateful Dead. He didn't want to go solo. Jerry was a groupist. He loved to group. — Mickey Hart

I quit, and then I started again, and then I quit, and then I started again. — Brad Pitt

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing. — Obie Trice

We all want Canaan without going through the wilderness. — Ravi Zacharias

When you are dealing with approximately two-plus hours every few years to do a story, you don't have the luxury of having excessive screen time to explore, in detail and in-depth, lots of other subsidiary or ancillary supporting characters. — Michael Uslan

This all sounds like a great idea with no chance of catastrophic failure. — Andy Weir

All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription. — Chrissie Hynde

Solving climate change is a complex topic, but in a single crude brush-stroke, here is the solution: the price of carbon dioxide must be such that people stop burning coal without capture. — David J. C. MacKay

Build a solid courage behind what you believe you can do. Your dreams may drift and fall, but when your courage is strong and still, you can't shift; you'll lift your dreams again! — Israelmore Ayivor

My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we make up things, we write, and for me the puzzle is not that some people are still writing, the real question is why did the other people stop? — William Stafford