Quotes about Detail

Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network.

And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Above the ark were the cherubim of glory, overshadowing the mercy seat. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.

I can do small things in a great way.

Not to put too fine a point upon it.

A beard well lathered is half shaven.

I think it is better to make a study of smaller things. Then the larger will follow. In smaller things one can progress. There one's efforts are repaid.

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.

The hill is like an old woman, all her human obligations met, who sits at work day after day, in a kind of rapt leisure, at an intricate embroidery. She has time for all things. Because she does not expect ever to be finished, she is endlessly patient with details. She perfects flower and leaf, feather and song, adorning the briefest life in great beauty as though it were meant to last forever.

What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

That is the way I have always worked. I draw a plan and work out every detail on the plan before starting to build. For otherwise one will waste a great deal of time in makeshifts as the work goes on and the finished article will not have coherence. It