Particular Quotes

Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me.

Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem.

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.

Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.

Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?

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

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.

I don't think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated.

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

When I was a kid I was very particular. I was actually beyond particular. I would iron my money and spray it with Polo cologne.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points

Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.

All my kids love superheroes, but my middle daughter in particular is obsessed with Wonder Woman and Batgirl.

Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.

I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

I do believe that almost everything I do is based on my feelings, not on my intellect. Though But we won't chase ourselves up the particular sentiment, or we'll get lost.

Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. [Coining the "big bang" expression.]

We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary.

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.

The issue I have always felt most strongly about is hunger in America, in particular the children.

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.

If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there seemed no particular hurry at the time.

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment.

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

For the warrior, there is no "better" or "worse"; everyone has the necessary gifts for his particular path.

Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented.

In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

Fashion is a very particular world, as you know.

Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.

The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.