Particular Quotes · Page 167

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular…

— Northrop Frye

I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you…

— Geraldine Brooks

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common…

— Joel Miller

The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is…

— Michelangelo

I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or…

— Jessye Norman

I think it's very important to emphasize that there are many, many different educational institutions in what we call higher education, and…

— Derek Bok

In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that…

— William Beebe

I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but…

— Jane Austen

With this particular series [The Cursed Wheel] I'm going farther in that direction than I've tried before in terms of the elasticity…

— Scott Snyder

The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

If it was a biopic about Glenn Greenwald, I would have immersed myself more fully in his personal life and gotten to…

— Zachary Quinto

Protecting national security amounts to looking for needles in a haystack. The work becomes more difficult if the haystack is larger. Restricting…

— Jan C. Ting

Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out…

— Brandon Boyd

Men in particular need to speak more about their personal reasons for wanting diversity in the workplace.

— Jane Silber

If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular piece of mine, shred…

— James Dickey

If I want to draw more in a particular scene that I think is important, because of time I cannot. That's hard…

— Tite Kubo

Google has you at a very specific mental state that is, looking for something. And what they've always been able to say…

— Tim Wu

Eating outdoors is a particular passion - that is, eating trestle-table a la nicoise.

— Mary Quant

When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time…

— Alexey Brodovitch

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of…

— Frank Herbert

The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because…

— James Madison

As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work…

— Leonard Cohen

One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep,…

— Jeanette Winterson

In education, I'm going to try to find what works. One thing I want to do is improve the quality of teachers.…

— Charles Schumer