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Quotes About Particular

'Crimson' is written in a very particular style, and it's very precise in the way it graduates into a gothic romance. The souls that will connect with it will connect deeply.
~ Guillermo del Toro
The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To grasp the difference between Universal and Particular, consider that some dress better to impress a single, specific person than an entire crowd.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Like women in general, like Aries women in particular, like redheaded Aries women in greater particular, she loathed to be misunderstood. Injustice against others outraged her, injustice against herself set her to boiling like brimstone soup.
~ Tom Robbins
My stories aren't for everyone—they were never meant to be—but
~ Kevin J. Anderson
In particular, like all physical quantities, volume may not assume arbitrary values, but only certain particular ones, as I described in chapter 4. The list of all possible values is called, recall, the "spectrum." Hence, there should exist a "spectrum of the volume" (figure 6.2).
~ Carlo Rovelli
When vegetarians attempt to disarm the dominant control of language, they are seen as picky, particular, embittered, self righteous, confrontative, and especially sentimental.
~ Carol J. Adams
And as much as I may have joked about Star Wars over the years, I liked that I was in those films. Particularly as the only girl in an all-boy fantasy.
~ Carrie Fisher
Slipping in the side door to the VIP section , she scanned the crowd , well aware that she was looking for one male in particular. And he was there. Fucking John Matthew.
~ J.R. Ward
For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.
~ Georg Simmel
It has happened with me that I get a role of a cop for a film. Few directors typecast you if you do that particular role well. But, it is the actor who has to decide whether he fits in that role or not.
~ Vishwajeet Pradhan
It's not like I don't want to play the guy next door. But sometimes they're not the best written or the most complicated. But I am very, very particular about my bad boys. There are certain types of characters I will not play. I've said no so many times to so many parts that are just way too dark. You have to be careful.
~ Kim Coates
Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.
~ Dana Goodyear
The rules of war for federal court were contained in the 86 rules of federal civil procedure, the rules of the local federal court, and the courtroom rules of the particular federal judge.
~ Kenneth Eade, Predatory Kill
We need a foreign policy which responds to challenges like forced marriage, and which speaks to the particular needs of women and girls at risk of being sold into slavery.
~ Emily Thornberry
We all have the need to feel special.
~ Janet Jackson
South India, and in particular Hyderabad, holds a special place in my heart because I have a huge fan base here.
~ Ananya Birla
Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.
~ Claire Danes
If anything is scary about my writing, it's that it's the product of a very particular vision and doesn't reference common speech that heavily. By 'common speech,' I don't mean language as much as an agreed-on way of seeing, or a shorthand.
~ Mary Gaitskill
There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography.
~ Helena Christensen
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
~ Augustus Hare
He wondered whether the designers of the phone had performed clinical studies on snoozers in order to decide on the nine-minute interval. Why not eight minutes, or ten? The makers of the phone were famously particular about design. This had to have been data-driven.
~ Neal Stephenson
Nell knows what a wall is. It is a knowledge that went into her early, knowledge she doesn't have to think about. Nell is more interested in gates than in walls. Secret hidden gates are particularly interesting.
~ Neal Stephenson
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations
~ Niccolo Machiavelli