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Quotes About Particular

It takes a particular confidence for one unknown musician to pronounce to another that their first meeting has the hallmarks of legend.
~ Unknown
I'm an acquired taste. I'm anchovies. If I was potato chips I could go more places.
~ Tori Amos
I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.
~ Tori Amos
It was a long time before the Snork came back with the wood. "Well, there you are at last," said his sister. "It took quite a time, said the Snork, "because, of course, I had to find pieces that were all exactly the same length." "Is he always so particular?" asked Snufkin. "He was born like that," said the Snork Maiden.
~ Tove Jansson
In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.
~ Doris Salcedo
Maybe it was actually an unspoken instant agreement between the four women on the balcony: No woman should pay for the accidental death of that particular man.
~ Liane Moriarty
In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting.
~ Lionel Shriver
There was one vampire movie that Gerard Butler was in, 'Dracula 2000,' and they touched on something interesting, but it only worked in the context of that particular movie, which was that the original vampire was Judas.
~ Amy Heckerling
My wife is the expert, but I like art particularly. I like Van Gogh.
~ Claudio Ranieri
There are many projects that come an actor's way, and one cannot say yes to all of them. Reasons of saying no vary all the time, but for me, it has never been on the pretext of not wanting to work with 'a particular actor' ever! I would never do that.
~ Taapsee Pannu
SOME DAYS YOU WAKE AND IMMEDIATELY START TO WORRY. NOTHING IN PARTICULAR IS WRONG, IT¹S JUST THE SUSPICION THAT FORCES ARE ALIGNING QUIETLY AND THERE WILL BE TROUBLE.
~ Jenny Holzer
Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
~ Damon Galgut
I am not at all particular about things like hair styles and colors. Especially with women, changing their hairstyle or color is a bit too commonplace, don't you think?
~ Akira Toriyama
You never know whether the subject matter will click with the audience at that particular time. I wish there was a formula, you know, 'That plus that equals success.'
~ Michelle Yeoh
I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.
~ Lisa Cholodenko
My husband is pretty particular about his cars. In his opinion, the Mercedes are the best of the best.
~ Lauren Lee Smith
We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us:
~ Peter Kreeft
Fortunately there is no need to pin the case for equality to one particular outcome of a scientific investigation.
~ Peter Singer
Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.
~ Philip K. Dick
I can't really change the games I like to make, and I can't change my own particular aesthetic.
~ Kim Swift
As Don Louis led them towards Isabella's chambers, he explained to Alvero that their arrival was particularly fortuitous.
~ Howard Fast
Thoughts are apples on the tree, Not meant for anyone in particular, But they end up belonging To the one who takes them.
~ Unknown
4. Well may New-England lay claim to the name it wears, and to a room in the tenderest affections of its mother, the happy Island! for as there are few of our towns but what have their name-sakes in England, so the reason why most of our towns are called what they are, is because the chief of the first inhabitants would thus bear up the names of the particular places there from whence they came.
~ Cotton Mather
I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games.
~ Emily Browning