Particular Quotes
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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 -
I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.
Celia Imrie
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
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 -
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 -
I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were the judgments of God.
Richard Land -
No matter what Hitler said, he spoke with a fine feeling for the particular circle which he addressed. ... He was a great psychologist.
Wilhelm Keitel -
Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.
Henry Louis Gates
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Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.
Seth Godin -
A bank needs models to measure risk. The problem, however, is that any one bank can measure its risk, but it also has to know what the risk taken by other banks in the system happens to be at any particular moment.
Myron Scholes -
Nullification is not a 'defense' recognized by law, but rather a mechanism that permits a jury, as community conscience, to disregard the strict requirements of law where it finds that those requirements cannot justly be applied in a particular case.
David L. Bazelon -
The universality of art, I suppose, always springs from the particular.
Alex Colville -
My wife will tell you that I'm very particular and it's annoying for other people. I eat the same thing every day. I go to the gym at the same time every day. I go to L.A. all the time, so I take that same 9:30 flight. I will not take another one.
Chris Black
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Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.
Nancy Pearl -
One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
George Washington -
Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.
Nelson Algren -
There is no particular reason to search for meaning.
William Eggleston -
Making movies is all about compromise, negotiation, and sacrifice, but the process helps you distill what's really important to you, and once you have identified what those these things are for any particular sequence, you hold onto them and don't let them go.
Miguel Sapochnik -
I've pretty much kicked over every stone. And there's nothing in me that says, "I must create this particular thing."
Sandra Bullock
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The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.
William Ames -
I felt that the world, and in particular this country, were going in circles. What had happened 40 or 50 years ago was happening again, but even in a worse form - that we were sinking into a lot of ignorance and a lot of superficial change.
Raoul Peck -
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
Rumi -
History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.
David Wojnarowicz