Particular Quotes · Page 27

The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light.

— Sebastiao Salgado

In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Whenever a society wants to demonize a particular group, it prohibits them from marrying.

— Sheila Kuehl

In order to find balance, I feel very strongly about two things in particular in terms of routine. Work out, and eat…

— Kamala Harris

'Where's Bill going?' He's going to comedy death. Boom! He pops out of it with another joke. It's my particular style.

— Bill Hicks

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.

— Timothy Keller

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular…

— Irving Kristol

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have…

— Mary Garden

It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present…

— Herbert Read

You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also…

— Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular…

— Bell Hooks

Parents will purchase the dot-com name for their baby. We have been aware of some instances where somebody didn't name their child…

— Bob Parsons

See, I don't get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that…

— Edward Norton

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in…

— Julia Cameron

The purpose of dancing isn't to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing and of life…

— Anonymous

As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But…

— Louis Auchincloss

The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular…

— Helene D. Gayle

That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in…

— Jeffrey Rosen

The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text…

— Don DeLillo

Over the past decade I have watched many friends go through graduate school and write dissertations. Through that process, I have seen…

— Dean Spade

In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the…

— William Strunk, Jr

It is, indeed, part of the liberal attitude to assume that, especially in the economic field, the self-regulating forces of the market…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

One should not as a rule reveal one's secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again.…

— Joseph Goebbels

Success is about happiness and security, rather than hitting any particular sort of job or rung on the career ladder.

— Suw Charman-Anderson

There was never anything in particular that led me to music. Music is in my DNA.

— Philip Bailey

In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market.

— Ruben Blades

I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

— Ira Glass

Live all you can. It's a mistake not to. It doesn't much matter what you do in particular, so much as you…

— Henry James

Most victories came from instantly exploiting your enemy's stupid mistakes, and not from any particular brilliance in your own plan.

— Orson Scott Card

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

— Caroline Corr

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

— Mark Twain

Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.

— Allen Toussaint

Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular.

— Christine Lahti

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

— Duane Michals

“But there is one strategy in particular that I would like to share with you.”

— Robin S. Sharma

There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?

— Garry Wills

Plan to the extent that feels right to you at a particular time in your life, but always be open to serendipity.

— Steve Leveen

The emerging whole manifests locally. It manifests in particular communities, groups, and, ultimately, in us as individuals.

— Betty Sue Flowers

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.

— Marilynne Robinson