#tail

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all. ↗

— James Mill

#exhortations #government #obstruct #operations #resist

I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#behavior #details #draw #human #human behavior

When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#before #came #coming #conquest #could

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity. ↗

— Rick Moody

#details #finally #gave #i #i always

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be. ↗

— Rick Moody

#doing #exactly #great #happened #i

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level. ↗

— Robert Moog

#designs #details #done #effective #electronics

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states. ↗

— Evo Morales

#capacity #change #change things #colonial #combine

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#develop #incorporate #more #own #prose

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#because #emphasis #fell #first #her

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. ↗

— William Morris

#daily #daily life #details #genuine #happiness