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

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

David Hackworth

The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

Edward Gibbon

Detail

Events

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.

I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.

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.

George Eads

Detail

Direction

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

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.