Particular Quotes · Page 49

I don't have any particular plans in mind. What I see is that you can become so focused on the idea of…

— Zephyr Teachout

I learned [playing Chuck Berry] that there's something to be said for the courage of conviction, that sense of belief, being bold…

— Mos Def

You don't want to burn any bridges, but you also want to make sure you leave your character bridges wide open and…

— Amanda Schull

The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a…

— Sufjan Stevens

If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a…

— Sidney Lanier

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

— Karel Reisz

We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the…

— E. H. Moore

If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible…

— Alexander Kotov

There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them;…

— Fanny Burney

I have a particular dislike of human pride. And if you think that you can engineer outcomes, that's a manifestation of pride.…

— Mark Helprin

I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the…

— Wole Soyinka

Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too.

— Regina King

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

— Jennifer Egan

As for my voice, it cannot be categorized-and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in…

— Jessye Norman

Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular…

— Edouard Vuillard

“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to…

— N. Scott Momaday

It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests…

— Charles Duhigg

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

I was on Batman with "Superheavy" or "Zero Year" where there was a lot of fun and bombast, but it was also…

— Scott Snyder

Meliorn looked impassive. "Mundane humans are not permitted in the Court." "I wish someone had mentioned that earlier," said Simon, to no…

— Cassandra Clare

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!

— Robert Browning

The evolution of Parkour sort of happens with time and age as you change, and the body has a certain memory of…

— David Belle

There are things in our lives that take up an enormous importance and that become very dominant effects in our biography. And…

— Antonio Damasio

I don't admire one particular style, but for evening events, I always look to Grace Kelly for inspiration.

— Kylie Bax

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the…

— John Harvey-Jones