Particular famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
-- A. R. Rahman -
It's never the right time to take a particular stand.
-- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
Who you truly are is a place of no particular thing, but all things at once.
-- Alan Finger -
I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.
-- Albert Einstein -
I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul
-- Aleister Crowley -
Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.
-- Alex Steffen -
We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.
-- Allen Tate -
An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.
-- Anatole Broyard -
I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?
-- Andrea Corr -
That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
-- Andrew Wiles -
I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
-- Angela Davis -
Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.
-- Anthony Eden -
What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time?
-- Antony Pay -
It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.
-- Ben E. King -
If you're really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
-- Billy Gibbons -
Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.
-- Brigham Young -
when the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do ...
-- Caitlin Thomas -
There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.
-- Caroline Corr -
I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.
-- Caroline Corr -
I've never felt any particular desire to be married.
-- Cindy Gallop -
my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
-- Claude Bernard -
Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
-- Damian Lewis -
To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.
-- Dana Gioia -
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
-- Daniel Alarcon -
I don't really feel part of any particular movement.
-- Danielle Dax -
I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.
-- Danny Bonaduce -
There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.
-- Donald Barthelme -
I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.
-- Donna Leon -
The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down
-- Elaine Scarry -
Beauty always takes place in the particular.
-- Elaine Scarry -
However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness.
-- Elizabeth Noble -
I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.
-- Ellen Ochoa -
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian.
-- Enver Hoxha -
I am very much in love with no one in particular.
-- Ezra Miller -
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
-- Frank Moore Colby -
The line is a whole, an identity, for a particular place and time.
-- Fred Sandback -
There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music.
-- Freddie Highmore -
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
I fell in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.
-- George Harrison -
Without picking out anyone in particular. I thought Mark Wright was tremendous.
-- Graeme Souness -
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks -
Fashion is a very particular world, as you know.
-- Heidi Klum -
It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life.
-- Henry James -
I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous.
-- Iris Murdoch -
What's the go of that? What's the particular go of that?
-- James Clerk Maxwell -
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
-- James F. Cooper -
In the particular is contained the universal.
-- James Joyce -
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
-- Jessye Norman -
In particular, the emerging call from our nation's evangelicals to protect God's creation is substantial
-- Jim Clyburn -
I'm not tied to any particular political line.
-- John Hewson -
I don't e-mail. I've never felt the particular need to e-mail.
-- John McCain -
We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things...
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.
-- Joseph Addison -
Specialize in your particular field and try to know more about it than anyone else.
-- Joseph Murphy -
There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
-- Josh Billings -
You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.
-- Judith Butler -
Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented,
-- Julian Assange -
I don't have a particular go-to political blog.
-- Justin Amash -
At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I'm having a lovely time.
-- Keira Knightley -
I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.
-- Lester Bangs -
I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.
-- Lisa Marie Presley -
Hatred isgeneralized, but love is for the particular.
-- Louis Dudek -
Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.
-- Malcolm Gladwell -
There's no one particular road that will lead you to success. I think everybody will find it differently.
-- Marina and the Diamonds -
If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.
-- Mary Lou Retton -
I don't write for any particular kind of person.
-- Mary Wesley -
Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.
-- Mike Svob -
God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down.
-- N. T. Wright -
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
-- Nicholson Baker -
But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
-- Norman MacCaig -
Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.
-- Patricia Briggs -
I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all.
-- Paul Giamatti -
Every production network has spatiality - the particular geographical configuration and extent of its component elements and the links between them.
-- Peter Dicken -
Ill smoke anything anybody gives me, Im not particular.
-- Peter Falk -
The Democrats in particular are do-nothing guys.
-- Peter George Peterson -
Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment.
-- Peter Jennings -
I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -
But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.
-- Richard Serra -
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
-- Robert Fitzgerald -
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own
-- Robert Hunter -
I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.
-- Robert Mapplethorpe -
I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category.
-- Rufus Wainwright -
What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
-- Scott Putesky -
I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.
-- Sean Hannity -
A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.
-- Sei Shonagon -
I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.
-- Sir Fulke Greville -
Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.
-- Stephen Greenblatt -
There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.
-- Tobias Wolff -
All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.
-- Todd Gitlin -
A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.
-- Viswanathan Anand -
He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
-- W. S. Gilbert
