Particular Quotes

If we want to know where the truth lies in particular cases, we have to look.

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.

That particular octopus committed suicide, didn't he? He stabbed himself with his own beak.

I'm very minimalist. However, I don't like to hang onto any particular style - whatever serves the purpose.

However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.

Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.

Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.

I sighed and stared off without any particular focus. "I miss him so much." "I'm sorry," she said. "Will it ever get better?" The question seemed to catch her by surprise. "I...I don't know.

People have always had a fascination with the supernatural going back to the beginning of time and with vampires in particular. This phenomenon is not new.

Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.

Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they talking about their favorite TV shows, or a particular brand of shampoo?

I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.

Motivation describes your attitude when you would rather do one thing more than another at a particular time.

Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.

We often think that tragedies happen because of great earthquakes in people's lives. I think they sometimes occur because of small things that become obsessive to a particular person.

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.

If you are interested in a form of science or interested in a particular kind of business or whatever - or if you want to be a writer, there's so much information out there, it's almost too much.

I personally believe it's really important for the students to experience a particular culture.

The problem of the universal is difficult in every case. The universal and the particular can never be separated; they always go hand in hand.

I've had many years to consider what I would like to see about a particular place. I don't waste any time and I enjoy it.

I think that in politics, when people want to discredit a particular position, they say, "Oh, they are liberals," or "They are conservatives; we are centrists." Everybody wants to be a centrist.

I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal.

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out. . . . I anticipate death will be a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything.

miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.

Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.

Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.

I've done a lot of period stuff but that's mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff, but it's not any kind of particular choice. That's where a lot of the work is.

Marco [Rubio] now is attached to that establishment. I don't see his future, not in this particular cycle.

I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.

When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?

You need someone that behaves like James Bond more than you need someone that is an expert in some particular domain.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

I've pretty much kicked over every stone. And there's nothing in me that says, "I must create this particular thing."

The Clash, in particular, transcends any category.

AR-15s, in particular, are often called America's gun. They're some of the most popular rifles in the country, especially when it comes to sports shooting.

With this particular series [The Cursed Wheel] I'm going farther in that direction than I've tried before in terms of the elasticity of the mythology.

The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light.

In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.

I believe young female directors in particular should always remind themselves of the truths of their own stories and not let outsiders influence the authenticity of their films.

Romance is very particular to each individual and a very personalised thing.