I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

— Doug Stanhope

Ninety-eight percent of the singing I did was private singing - it was in the shower, at the dishwasher, driving my car, singing with…

— Linda Ronstadt

I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking to journalism…

— Jim Edgar

The administration of George W. Bush, emboldened by the Sept. 11 attacks and the backing of a Republican Congress, has sought to further extend…

— Noah Feldman

I like to garden, particularly mowing grass.

— Rita Tushingham

I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am…

— Beverly Cleary

I love finding out why people don't love things. And if you ask people why they don't like things, particularly when they get into…

— Stew

First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up…

— John Sebastian

I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school,…

— Kevin Plank

To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly…

— Joan Didion

Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.

— John Leo

I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have…

— Maurice Ashley

I figure I do a lot of things, none of them particularly well.

— Jim Norton

Comedy doesn't really matter that much; I know that. I treat it like an adult - I don't treat it like a child or…

— Bo Burnham

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

— Katori Hall