“The physicists are getting down to the nitty-gritty, they've really just about pared things down to the ultimate details, and the last thing they ever expected to happen is happening. God is showing through.” HappensLastsHappeningsUltimateDetailsExpectedPhysicist Author:John Updike
“I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.” TryingLooksMeanImportantShowsAbilityEconomyProductsInvolvedHappeningsDetailsInterfere Author:Rupert Murdoch
“I think the novel is essentially a comic form (tragedy is for the theatre), not meaning by that full of jokes, but that it is about the absurd detail of human life, the way in which one cannot fully understand what is happening. Life is muddle and jumble and ends inconclusively, and when this is presented with great comic art the sorrows of human life can be truthfully conveyed; one is moved by the spectacle, and feels that something truthful has been told in a magic way.” ThinkingWayFeelsHumansHas BeensArtEndsFormLife IsNovelMagicSorrowHappeningsJokesTragedyMovedDetailsTheatreAbsurdComicHuman LifeTruthfulBeing TruthfulMuddleComic Art Author:Iris Murdoch
“If it is true that it is the simplicity of the Einsteinian formulae which constitutes their difficulty, that they are so obvious as to escape notice, it seems to me that this applies to events in life, numberless happenings, perhaps the basic ones, which we, saturated in detail and hurrying through subdivisions, lose sight of.” IfsSeemsLosesEventsHappeningsSightDifficultySimplicityDetailsObviousHurryingSaturatedEvents In Life Author:Mary Butts
“Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story.” ChildrenBookStoriesImaginationElementsHappeningsAddDetailsTinyCluePicture BooksIllustratorsGleaning Author:Philip Reeve
“I need to be spontaneous sometimes. Sometimes I find that the little detail or nuance that you add to it that's based on what's happening at the time that's not very rehearsed often ends up feeling like the funniest thing.” NeedsLittlesEndsSometimesFeelingsHappeningsAddDetailsSpontaneousNuanceBe Spontaneous Author:Thomas Lennon
“The walk is like a matrix, like a diffuse, vague happening. It's like - imagine a play, a work of theatre, that is totally vague, almost devoid of details that consists in one person going on a walk. And as a consequence, there is a necessary tension between the determinacy and indeterminacy, the definite and the indefinite, of possibility.” PersonsPlayWalksImaginePossibilityHappeningsConsequenceDetailsTheatreTensionDefiniteVague Author:Sergio Chejfec
“By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.” TodayHappeningsDetailsAmerican History Author:Christoph Waltz
“Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.” DoeRealityHappensMagicHappeningsWeakLogicDetailsAnticipation Book:Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings