Particular Quotes

• I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Kind
  • Goal
  • Particular

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

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • Important
  • May
  • Listening

• The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses.

  

  Walter Alexander Raleigh
  • Horse
  • Friendly
  • Cavalry

• I don't gravitate toward any particular genre. I like to do things that interest me, regardless of genre. I've had a blast doing Cosmos, and I'm said that it's coming to an end. I would like to do something else like that.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Said
  • Interest
  • Ends

• The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others.

  

  David Hurn
  • Moment
  • Photograph
  • Destination

• I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.

  

  Richard MacDonald
  • Creating
  • Lasts
  • Selling

• I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many ways. I would say that certainly the stories of the day appear in the work - I just have never gone so far as to say, well, this particular event could influence a plot of an entire book.

  

  Michael Koryta
  • Inspiration
  • Stories
  • Influence

• Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount of work. The second is that they never know fatigue. And the third is that their minds grow more brilliant as they grow older, instead of less brilliant. Great men's lives begin at forty, where the mediocre man's life ends. The genius remains an ever-flowing fountain of creative achievement until the very last breath he draws.

  

  Walter Russell
  • Successful
  • Creative
  • Achievement

• The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy , or the capacity to perform work, which more general laws form the basis of the science of energetics, a science comprehending, as special branches, the theories of motion, heat, light , electricity , and all other physical phenomena.

  

  William John Macquorn Rankine
  • Electricity
  • Branches
  • Thermodynamics

• Value dwells not in particular will; It holds his estimate and dignity As well wherein 'tis precious of itself As in the prizer.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Values
  • Wells
  • Dignity

• Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

  

  Wendy Wasserstein
  • Desire
  • Speak
  • Certain

• In the interest of not pissing you off anymore tonight, let's not select that particular playlist.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Interest
  • Tonight
  • Select

• The drive to want to know is innate in people. You cannot influence this. I think in contrast it is harmful if you push kids too far in a particular direction.

  

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
  • People
  • Want
  • Influence

• One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.

  

  George Washington
  • Party
  • Opinion
  • Influence

• The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Evil
  • Ideas
  • Hopeless

• The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Order
  • Accounts
  • Organized

• Ethnic differences exist; of course they exist on the African continent. They are not necessarily political differences, however. They don't necessarily cause people to kill each other. They become so-called 'tribalism' when they are politicized in a particular framework. And in post-independence Africa they have been politicized largely by sections of the so-called African elite.

  

  Walter Rodney
  • Political
  • Differences
  • Independence

• In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

  

  Minoru Yamasaki
  • Building
  • Particular

• But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.

  

  Richard Serra
  • Myself
  • Particular
  • Viewer

• A good aspect of me is that I'm not too particular about things. A bad aspect is that I'm indecisive.

  

  Akira Toriyama
  • Aspect
  • Particular
  • Indecisive

• My dad is the type of person that says yes to life, and to the adventures it throws at you. Because of that, he never forced me into a particular career, or had wild expectations for me; his concern was simply that I was fulfilled and happy.

  

  MyAnna Buring
  • Persons
  • Expectations
  • Concern

• History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

  

  David Wojnarowicz
  • People
  • Hands
  • Cameras

• If you're going to make a lot of films about a particular group of animals, you might as well pick one that's fairly common. And octopus are: they live in all the oceans. They also live deep. And I can't say octopus are responsible for my really strong interest in getting in subs and going deep, but whatever the case, I like that.

  

  Mike deGruy
  • Deep
  • Animals
  • Responsible

• There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Stories
  • Games
  • Creating

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