Particular Quotes

• Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

  

  Thomas R. Cech
  • Connected
  • Phenomenon
  • Biology

• The universality of art, I suppose, always springs from the particular.

  

  Alex Colville
  • Art
  • Particular
  • Universality

• Obligations may be universal or particular.

  

  Tom G. Palmer
  • Particular
  • Universal

• I'm not a writer, so I don't know what that looks like, but I can only imagine that you get all those great minds in that room, of those particular writers that created the show, and it's going to be great.

  

  Carrie-Anne Moss
  • Mind
  • Looks
  • Imagine

• I think that this industry in particular is so fast-paced that you keep saying, 'I'll take vacation later.' Sometimes later never comes. I'm definitely leading a much slower life now that I'm not working every single day on a television series.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Vacation

• Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Fighting
  • Ready
  • Chasing

• The only thing that I know is that if I like a particular script, I want to be as honest to my character as possible. That's the only thing I can control. I have made a lot of decisions on an impulse, and I am going to continue that.

  

  Rajkummar Rao
  • Character
  • Decisions
  • Continue

• There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Reason
  • Particular

• You just try to find something that interests you, and particular something that interests you that's gonna consume you the way that these big movies just really eat you up.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Movie
  • Interest
  • Particular

• They talked about teamwork. That's all it is. It's about team effort. No particular player trying to outshine each other. Playing unselfishly and believe. Good things will come.

  

  Rajon Rondo
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Player

• When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.

  

  Mickey Gilley
  • Guy
  • Action
  • Names

• When there's an ache, you want to be like aspirin, not vitamins. Aspirin solves a very particular problem someone has, whereas vitamins are a general "nice to have" market.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Problem
  • Ache
  • Aspirin

• The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.

  

  Michael Ritchie
  • Theater
  • Audiences
  • Nearly

• 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
  • Work
  • Made
  • Everyone

• It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.

  

  Wendy McElroy
  • Men
  • Which
  • Unjust

• Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.

  

  Anton Webern
  • Humans
  • Products
  • Particular

• Technology has such an impact on libraries in the last 20 years, and the last 10 years in particular.

  

  Carla Hayden
  • Technology
  • Library
  • Impact

• Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The Communist model of society was a kind of imposed utopia for which the Russian people in particular paid a great price. Still, sometimes we see that attempts are being made to impose some other kind of model on the entire world - maybe a Westernized or Americanized model... This is not the way to go because this can only create conflict.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Remember
  • Sometimes
  • Lessons

• The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly) of relativistic quantum fields... They have nothing whatsoever to say on the subject of where those fields came from, or of why the world should have consisted of the particular kinds of fields it does, or of why it should have consisted of fields at all, or of why there should have been a world in the first place. Period. Case closed. End of story.

  

  David Albert
  • World
  • Kind
  • Should

• Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Proud
  • Results
  • Asking

• I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

  

  Tom Hayden
  • Mean
  • Answers
  • Ready

• Nothing about my birth - or yours - was random or accidental. I was born for this time - and so were you. We were each chosen for a particular, cosmically important task that can be done by no one else.

  

  Christine Caine
  • Important
  • Born
  • Birth

• I am a very particular and peculiar ethnicity. Southern European, Italians - they never fit in models.

  

  Riccardo Sabatini
  • Models
  • Southern
  • European

• Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don't have a very good reason to be doing this except for the knowledge that it brings. This research is especially important to young people. We all want to know what's going on in the universe.

  

  Rainer Weiss
  • People
  • Important
  • Universe

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