Quotes of: Particulars Keyword

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

Story Musgrave

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

Bill Gates

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

George Bernard Shaw

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

Jason Aldean

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

William James

Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.

Alexis Korner

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

William Ralph Inge

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

Warren Zevon

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

David Bowie

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Rumi

Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe exists; particular events must take place in it, the probability of which (before the event) was infinitesima...

Chance and Necessity

I am sometimes asked, "How do you know there won't be a war tomorrow (or a genocide, or an act of terrorism) that will refute your whole thesis?" The question misses the point of this book. The point is not that we have entered an Age of Aquarius in ...

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

All of our descriptive statements move within an often invisible network of value-categories, and indeed without such categories we would have nothing to say to each other at all. It is not just as though we have something called factual knowledge wh...

Literary Theory: An Introduction

There are so many things we can’t do anything about if we think about generalities. Things won’t go well because there is a huge gap between the generalities and the particulars. If we see generalities from the top of a mountain or from a plane, ...

Hayao Miyazaki

Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a way that any definition is liable to be challenged, but one must draw a distinction between them, since two different and even opposing ideas are involved. ...

George Orwell

So oft it chances in particular men That for some vicious mole of nature in them— As in their birth (wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin), By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of...

William Shakespeare

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

Michael Behe

Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.

Thomas Kuhn

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Frank Moore Colby

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

Claire Messud