We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
quote by Alfred North Whitehead
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
quote by Howard Nemerov
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Thugs
everyone's got their breaking point
with me it's spiders and with you it's me
thugs in perpetuity
when we're excited little birds around the feeder
the cat's indifferent or he's just furious
it seems that he's never neither
I do the rolling you do the detail
I do the rolling you do the detail
hair bird plucks a hair from a sleeping dog
to build her nest she said I've looked around
and I like your hair the best
I do the rolling you do the detail
I do the rolling you do the detail
Ruby
song performed by by The Tragically Hip from Day For Night
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Don't live by generalities, unless it be to act virtuously, and don't ask desire to follow precise laws, for you will have to drink tomorrow from the water you scorn today.
quote by Baltasar Gracian
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
Caress the detail, the divine detail.
quote by Vladimir Nabokov
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.
quote by Knute Rockne
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.
quote by Chiaki Kuriyama
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Take and Keep It
Take and keep it!
Stay focused.
Believe the journey.
Enjoy the scene.
Wrap your heart around the moment.
Be there...
And remember each detail.
Prevail and succeed.
Live as if it breathes within you.
Feel, unlock and release...
Every thrill increasing your excitement.
Exclaim in shouts!
Come out with it,
Or hide in quiet gratefulness.
You hold the key.
Know that awake or in deep peaceful sleep.
It is yours to keep!
Let this sensation unresisted fit.
Take and keep it!
Stay focused.
Believe the journey.
Enjoy the scene.
Wrap your heart around the moment.
Be there...
And remember each detail.
Prevail and succeed.
Live as if it breathes within you.
It does.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
quote by Alphonse de Lamartine
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
quote by Howard Nemerov
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The Crowd At The Ball Game
The crowd at the ball game
is moved uniformly
by a spirit of uselessness
which delights them—
all the exciting detail
of the chase
and the escape, the error
the flash of genius—
all to no end save beauty
the eternal—
So in detail they, the crowd,
are beautiful
for this
to be warned against
saluted and defied—
It is alive, venomous
it smiles grimly
its words cut—
The flashy female with her
mother, gets it—
The Jew gets it straight— it
is deadly, terrifying—
It is the Inquisition, the
Revolution
It is beauty itself
that lives
day by day in them
idly—
This is
the power of their faces
It is summer, it is the solstice
the crowd is
cheering, the crowd is laughing
in detail
permanently, seriously
without thought
poem by William Carlos Williams
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.
quote by Paul Lynde
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Together
Together we will live
Together we'll die
Together we will live
Together we'll die
Madness is fragile and fragile is she
In chaos she's agile and madness is me
We knew from the beginning it wasn't alright
Like being in a padded room for more than one night
Judgment escaped me I speak for us both
Like the bond that we made let's call it an oath
Together we will live
Together we'll die
Together we will live
Together we'll die
Filled with the confidence of nothing to loose
Armed with an axe and a whole lot of booze
Plans were made down to each detail
With a plan like that how could we fail
We packed all our gear in the trunck of my brother's car
'Cause time is running out says the clock on the wall
Judgment escaped me I speak for us both
Like the bond that we made we call it an oath
Together we will live
Together we'll die
Together we will live
Together we'll die
Together we will live
Together we'll die
Together we will live
Together we'll die
Madness is fragile and fragile is she
In chaos she's agile and madness is me
She had the key to keeping me insane
But now I'm gone and she's got to be tamed
As I am telling you as it is true
I'm on my way to bury you
Gonna put you down under
Gotta put you down under
Together we will live
Together we'll die
Together we will live
Together we'll die
Together we will live
Together we'll die
Together we will live
Together we'll die
song performed by by Eagle Eye Cherry
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Heather Donahue
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
60 Year-Old Apple Tree
I am eating from a 60 year-old apple tree,
And my father-in-law is 80 years old;
But it is like the free-will offering to get what i need.
Artistic craftsmanship and the ability to teach,
The dexterity of every skilled person is needed here;
But with the impetus act from every manner of works!
Detail by detail and step by step,
But the days will be long when you do bring me your love.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Life In Detail
Who could tell just what might happen ?
Sometimes you're gonna feel a shock.
You got your carbonet - you think you're laughin'
It may hit you like a ton of rock.
You see your life in detail
such a close-up view
from another angle
like another you
It's that feelin' again
do you remember when ?
you were so confused
you knew ever y thing
You thought that happiness was automatic
That you were livin' in MEAN time
It's that feelin' again
do you remember when ?
you had it all sown-up
And then you call a friend
A, like a life in detail
such a close-up view
like a mirrored image
of another you
{Instrumental interlude
You were after Mr. Energenic
Now you wonder why you feel so alone
that you're under anethestetic
makes you wonder where you're comin' from
It's like the feelin' again
do you remember when ?
you were so convinced
you knew everything
like a life in detail
such a close-up view
from another angle
like another you.
song performed by by Robert Palmer
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.
quote by Jim Henson
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
To Leap In Learning
To leap is to learn,
Saying this is frolicking in the knowledge;
This weakness, this hard luck,
We certainly bend the rules of engagement.
In detail, our arguments did lose,
Contentment is the best spirit.
To leap into the year is better than the month,
Farces contend with these days and months
Like the flowing rivers with the oceans.
I love this learning, I live with them,
They are who live with learning,
With wisdom and justice.
poem by Naveed Akram
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!