#detail

Out of absolutely nowhere I felt a sudden, sweet shot of joy, piercing and distilled as the jolt I imagine heroin users get when the fix hits the vein. It was my partner bracing herself on her hands as she slid fluidly off the desk, it was the neat practiced movement of flipping my notebook shut one-handed, it was my superintendent wriggling into his suit jacket and covertly checking his shoulders for dandruff, it was the garishly lit office with a stack of marker-labeled case files sagging in the corner and evening rubbing up against the window. It was the realization, all over again, that this was real and it was my life. Maybe Katy Devlin, if she had made it that far, would have felt this way about blisters on her toes, the pungent smell of sweat and floor wax in the dance studios, the early-morning breakfast bells raced down echoing corridors. Maybe she, like me, would have loved the tiny details and the inconveniences even more dearly than the wonders, because they are the things that prove you belong. ↗

— Tana French

#tiny-details #imagination

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#doomed #down #not perfect #perfect #perish

I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#attention #detail #i #i think #paying

I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#additional #called #describe #details #give

I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#details #drive #else #i #important

Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't able to do it because of the time element. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#anatomy #because #classes #detailed #drawings

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy. I can't get into minute details. ↗

— Dee Snider

#details #get #guy #i #into

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution. ↗

— John Griffin Carlisle

#detail #discretion #judgment #matter #mere

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#class #detail #experience #intelligent #knows

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#allowances #believable #detailed #fabric #i