Particular Quotes · Page 18

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

— Harold Pinter

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

— William Ralph Inge

You must find your dream...but no dream lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any…

— Hermann Hesse

To me, it is very important to have perfume in which it is hard to recognize a particular flower or scent. That…

— Isabella Rossellini

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

— Bobby Sherman

Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a…

— Erin Wasson

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

— Thomas Jefferson

Well," he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. "Here we are again.

— Iain Banks

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.…

— Stephen Fry

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Close-Up is a very particular film in my oeuvre. It's a film that was made in a very particular way; mainly because…

— Abbas Kiarostami

Have a special interest, a positive prejudice about some clump of trees or one particular knoll, an excitement about them can spread…

— John French Sloan

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for…

— James M. Barrie

I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I…

— Oliver Cromwell

I mean, why do people fight over sports? Because of the framework, the schematic of sports, those particular people seize upon these…

— Ian MacKaye

We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born…

— Lewis Hyde

If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about…

— Maurice Sendak

For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other,…

— David Hume

It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture…

— Galileo Galilei

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place. By nature, we are…

— Gordon Livingston

If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the…

— Eckhart Tolle

I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I…

— Henry James

I think Willa Cather did a short story called "Paul's Case," and in it, when he finally commits suicide, it says, "He…

— Rod Serling

The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already…

— Yukio Mishima

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.

— Karl Popper

All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right…

— Jeff Bridges

For each man there awaits... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

— Louis Aragon

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

— Ray Bradbury

There's no one particular road that will lead you to success. I think everybody will find it differently.

— Marina and the Diamonds

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He…

— Hugh Jackman

I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.

— Richard P. Feynman

The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us…

— Carlos Castaneda

The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.

— Frederick Lenz

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

— George Eliot

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the…

— Susan Sontag

If you're really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.

— Billy Gibbons

Freedom of expression has a responsibility by those people who espouse it in the West, in particular non-Muslims.

— Anjem Choudary

Some directors involve waiting, and if you want to work with that particular director you're going to have to hang around.

— John Hurt