Particular Quotes

I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.

Every time Kellyanne Conway goes on TV, there's another fight with whoever's interviewing her that particular day.

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.

If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.

I am not a person of the left. But one of the things, the central idea of democracy is that you have a bigger investment in the system as a whole than you do in any particular outcome.

Previously people were treated anonymously particular on a drugs situation which is obviously highly emotive. They have been treated anonymously even after the verdict had been reached.

Well, I think the U.S. has been careful not to go too far in attacking Iran's allies, in particular in attacking Hezbollah forces in Syria, which have been propping up the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.

I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.

It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.

Sometimes commercial galleries ask for particular work to sell, but I try not to be bossed around by them. I didn't become an artist to get bossed around.

While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.

Women's particular experiences continue to shape not just their points of view but their actions, in the United States and around the world.

Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.

The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts. My particular segment deals with online dating. It's a very interesting take on it, and a great observation of what goes on there.

Generally there is Stigler's law of eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler.

I'm very particular about who I sleep with.

I have people that I'm close to that give me things to read throughout the season, and in particular in the playoffs and the postseason.

No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't so sure God supplied parachutes.

One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

Every time I'm in a foreign place and a different city, I'm always asking around to say, OK, well, what's special here in this particular place? What makes these people move here and why?

There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.

We're living through the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world. Our jobs have been stolen from us and we have people that don't know what they are doing, in particular our leadership.

There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson.

Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised Heaven in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't help but suffer in comparison.

I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day.

I always try to address where I am. I'll talk to the people and try to find out what it is about that particular place that makes it distinct from everywhere else.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

If there's a great story and great characters, then I can love a film in any genre, though crime thrillers and sci-fi have a particular soft spot in my heart.

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

I think that this win [Grammy] in particular was a cool moment for me and the director [Emil Nava], because it was the first award he's ever won.

I don't like cliques. I used to go out a lot in London with friends. And London can be very cliquey. I mean if you don't belong to one set you don't go to a particular party.

As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics.

I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.

But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.

Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic.

I think I’m dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.