Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy.

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

Individualism is rather like innocence There must be something unconscious about it.

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence and by the ignominy of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds to fail is something too awful to think about.

From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives there can really be no civilization at all.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

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

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing.

The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail.

I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.