Particularly Quotes
1950 quotes by 1576 authors
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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and…
— Rowan Atkinson
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You…
— Chinua Achebe
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I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.
— Margaret Atwood
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It…
— Paul Auster
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military…
— Charles Babbage
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Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me,…
— Anita Baker
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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out…
— J. G. Ballard
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
— J. G. Ballard
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The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the…
— William Bartram
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The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to…
— Wendell Berry
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through…
— Michael Bloomberg
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I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
— Ben Affleck
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My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.
— Ben Affleck
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I am honored I have performed 'Quizas Quizas Quizas' with Jennifer Lopez, an eclectic artist who thanks to the charismatic power of her voice and…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
— Bono
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I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly.…
— Anthony Bourdain
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In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would…
— Omar N. Bradley
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One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly…
— Jo Brand
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