Particular Quotes · Page 145

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story…

— Henry Louis Gates

I need to know who the audience are in any particular play. It's no good forgetting that they're there.

— Donald Sinden

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I…

— Guy Ritchie

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

— Jose Rizal

I think the real problem is it's easy to persuade young kids of particular kinds of ideas, because they are flexible.

— Leroy Hood

A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks…

— Edward Bernays

[On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male…

— Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

It might sound trite, but happiness is a decision not a destination, and my choices now are all based on whether not…

— Suw Charman-Anderson

Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all…

— Billy Graham

The people I admire most hadn't really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it.

— Anderson Cooper

more each particular person is(my love) alive than every world can understand and now you are and i am now and we're…

— e. e. cummings

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

— Leos Carax

There is a democratic deficit. In Latin America in particular there is real concern that democratic governments are not delivering and that…

— Mary Robinson

The story in that particular spot was an ancient history story, and we wanted to give it a historical feeling, which was…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy…

— Mark Twain

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

I'm very particular about the pizza that I eat. Godfather's is still a premium-quality product, and I cannot always find that. It's…

— Herman Cain

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular…

— Herb Ritts

There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in…

— Anton Chekhov

I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students…

— John Lewis Gaddis

The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is…

— Polybius

I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has…

— Max Roach

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

— Anne Tyler

But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought…

— William Whewell

It's different now but I enjoy it more than I did then. I think I appreciate it more now and I love…

— Chris Hillman