Quotes About Particular

It's not like I particularly have an interest in creepiness for creepy's sake.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.

Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned with facts, whose job it is to say what a particular man did do on a particular occasion: the lawyer does not, cannot be expected to go further than show what the ordinary man would be most likely to do under presumed circumstances.

I believe in haecceity, Sax had said, in thisness, in here-and-nowness, in the particular individuality of every moment. That's why I want to know what is this? what is this? what is this?

A Glass Cat! exclaimed Ojo, astonished. Yes; she makes a very pleasant companion, but admires herself a little more than is considered modest, and she positively refuses to catch mice, explained Margolotte. My husband made the cat some pink brains, but they proved to be too high-bred and particular for a cat, so she thinks it is undignified in her to catch mice. Also she has a pretty blood-red heart, but it is made of stone—a ruby, I think—and so is rather hard and unfeeling.

like a pernickety bandit.

Anybody will do for you, but not for me.

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

I'm super weird about my lips. I actually don't let makeup artists do my lipstick. I know my own lip line. I feel, even, they go too much over my lip line or too much under my lip line, and I don't want my lips to look strange on camera. I'm very particular about my lips.

I really don't feel the need to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because, at the end of the day, it's just somebody's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They have a particular process, and they're welcome to do it however they want to do it.

We should make it very clear to Saudi Aramco and others who want to list in London that they are very welcome but we aren't going to overly amend the rules just for one particular listing.

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole.

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

'The Lobster' is very particular, and we did need to create a very specific world with specific rules so the whole premise would work.

I'm pretty picky about plays.

Salt's relationship to flavor is multidimensional: It has its own particular taste, and it both balances and enhances the flavor of other ingredients.

For sure, I'm an acquired taste. People who've had that acquisition, who've acquired it, are quite surprised when they see me.

You don't understand why I have my work to do—because, at this particular time, you have none at all

Go practise if you please With men and women: leave a child alone For Christ's particular love's sake!

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody .

Rien ne captive autant que ce particulier… Charme de la musique où ma langueur s'adore… Quand je poursuis, aux soirs, le reflet que mordore… Maint lustre au tapis vert du salon familier… 

It is, as it were, the fundamental principle of cognition that the universal can be perceived only in the particular, while the particular can be thought only in reference to the universal.