Particular Quotes · Page 24

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

— Caroline Kennedy

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.

— Bahá'u'lláh

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

— Bill Gates

What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time?

— Antony Pay

I think I’m dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.

— Elizabeth Chandler

The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

— Adam Smith

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in…

— Keith Richards

This is about these particular candidates in this particular year. That's what motivates me.

— David Dinkins

I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to…

— John McLaughlin

Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system…

— Benjamin Hoff

I am really interested in the way we relate to time. In particular, the way readers and writers talk to each other.…

— Ruth Ozeki

It's not necessary to have read everything about a particular subject in order to get interested in it. The main thing is…

— Francois Englert

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country.…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of…

— Morgan Llywelyn

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35…

— Douglas Adams

My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to…

— Magnus Scheving

We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it…

— John Lennon

Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation…

— Akira Kurosawa

In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part…

— Tony Abbott

Many of the early greats of sf — Hugo Gernsback (publisher of Amazing Stories) in particular — saw themselves as educators. The…

— Samuel R. Delany

I suspect that any worthwhile exploration of these deep questions about living requires going beyond abstract discussions to the vivid presentation of…

— Philip Kitcher

I do not see in what way the face of a man should be a less interesting landscape than any other. A…

— Jean Dubuffet

Everybody has someone in their life that has breast cancer. It touches femininity, motherhood and sexuality and as Barbara Brenner says in…

— Leanne Pooley

Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon…

— Wislawa Szymborska

I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.

— William Least Heat-Moon

Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.

— Julie Burchill

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

— Dana Gioia

The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic…

— Marshall McLuhan

[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

— Jennifer Egan

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

— George Bernard Shaw

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

— Jonathan Lynn

I wanted the song to contain various meanings, and what I wanted in particular was to appeal to the audience with my…

— Seungri

I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our…

— Elizabeth Taylor

Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a…

— Bela Karolyi

I just listen to quite random songs; I don't like really particular artists or bands.

— Oliver Sim

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.

— Joan Didion

Wait a second," Clary said. "I never understand why people say that," Luke said, to no one in particular. "I wasn't going…

— Cassandra Clare

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

— Anonymous

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific…

— Alfred North Whitehead

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

— Seamus Heaney