Particular Quotes

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.

It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a model who I can take a portrait of.

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars.

Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks.

What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular inimitable genius.

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

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

The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what?

I think that when you let go and "throw it all away" and stop getting attached and say "whatever happens, happens", you don't invest too much in anything particular, and things work out.

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.

There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

At the Royall Oake Taverne, I drank a sort of French wine called Ho Bryan, that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.

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

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

The one unbreakable rule about hitting is this: if a batter hits well with his own particular stance and swing, think twice - or more - before suggesting a change.

Dress loose,take a great deal of exercise ,and be particular about your diet and sleep sound enough,the body has a great effect on the mind.

War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.

Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.

To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.

I wanted the song to contain various meanings, and what I wanted in particular was to appeal to the audience with my charms as a man.

Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality.

If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

It makes a difference when you've got more than two months versus two weeks to train for a particular opponent.

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

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

I hope that this man can be won over by your bearing charitably with him, advising him prudently, and praying for him. This is what I do for your family in general and for you in particular.

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.

All art is advertising. It stands for a particular point of view. Art that exploits badness is advertising badness.

When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.

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

God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only.

In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.

Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.