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Quotes About Specific

Nic's Charlie is something very particular. You can't really put them together. It's a phantasm.
~ Tilda Swinton
It's a different kind of acting, this 'Law & Order' thing. They want two partners who can play off each other well and are fun to watch, but depth of character is not necessary in this job. Too much character gets in the way of the story. This is a very specific gig.
~ Jeremy Sisto
Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.
~ Peter McWilliams
The total number of different specific antibodies that can be made by an individual is known as the antibody repertoire and it might be as high as 10^16. In practice, the number of B cells limits the actual repertoire to closer to 10^9.
~ Peter Parham
instructors to select specific chapters for use in thematic as
~ Philip Norton
problème « objectif » et à en faire son affaire (on peut penser à l'exemple, analysé par Panofsky, du problème de la rose de la façade Ouest, légué par Suger aux architectes qui inventeront l'art gothique) que se détermine la solution spécifique, produite à partir d'un art d'inventer déjà inventé ou grâce à l'invention d'un nouvel art d'inventer.
~ Pierre Bourdieu
Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.
~ Umberto Eco
In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I decided to investigate how the highly specific response properties of cortical cells emerged during postnatal development.
~ Torsten Wiesel
I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.
~ Quentin Blake
There are a lot of directors out there who are very specific, visual craftsmen, and while I have the utmost respect for that, they don't really communicate with the actors.
~ Peter Dinklage
When I was thinking of video ideas for this song, I wanted it to reflect the energy of the music and express the big eye roll that 'Sit Here and Cry' is. I had a very specific visual vision for it, and when I saw Sam Siske's reel, I knew he was going to get it.
~ Aubrie Sellers
Setting shouldn't just consist of describing nature or a landscape, or of saying where something takes place. It is the world of specific people. It's not enough for it to feel vivid or credible; it should feel necessary.
~ Kaui Hart Hemmings
Music is a gestalt. Songs are a life force and they have specific vocabulary to them. You hear a few notes, and they take you into a world of association.
~ Alan Menken
As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.
~ Adrian Belew
What I need, as a reader, is a character with a heart and a voice and a pulse. I need a character so vivid and so specific that she doesn't feel like fiction.
~ Becky Albertalli
I'm lucky because my repertoire is so specific, and theaters are interested in me singing my repertoire because it is not done so much. I'm pretty well settled in my repertoire. I like what I sing. My voice is high, and there is not much in baroque opera for higher tenor.
~ Juan Diego Florez
I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.
~ Neil Gaiman
We're getting a very different kind of immigrant now, and it began as a specific plan to bring in lots of more Democratic voters, and it worked.
~ Ann Coulter
But "the supreme judge of the world" and "divine providence" were no more specific to the God of the Bible than "Creator" and "Nature's God.
~ Jon Meacham
When he read coverage he disliked, McCarthy did not keep quiet—he went on the offensive, singling out specific publications and particular journalists, sometimes at rallies.
~ Jon Meacham
Did his soul change every time it achieved a new insight? The very definition of a soul was immutability. Perhaps the root of his confusion was the conflation of soul and knowledge. Perhaps the soul was one of those tools built to do exactly one specific task, to know that I am I, and was mutable with respect to all other forms of knowledge?
~ Jonathan Franzen
The earlier you intervene, the less likely that people will get defensive. The more real-time and specific your feedback is, the easier it is for people to receive it and learn from it. The
~ Jonathan Raymond
To learn more about specific plants and herbs and their properties, as well as how to grow them in a garden or in your home, flip to Part Two
~ Abigail Gehring
I had a very specific idea of the personal nature of the story I wanted to tell, really changing the image and the perception of Kratos.
~ Cory Barlog