#tail

When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#buy #detail #every #fantasy #happen

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised. ↗

— Sting

#eats #form #i #i see #language

My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road. ↗

— Eric Stonestreet

#bunch #business #childhood #dad #had

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#everyday #everyday life #great #heroic #insipid

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#any #artist #been #called #details

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#dime #heads #i #many #ny times

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#between #detail #difference #good #great

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#count #friends #him #privacies #retail

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#almost #am #color #concentrating #concrete

That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#been #before #details #go #going