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Quotes About Specific

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction.
~ Georg Simmel
There's something specific about the doves' way of living my life as a natural result of today since it's raining
~ Inger Christensen
For the first time the specific and express thought came to him. And though he pushed it away in horror, he knew that, having once come, it would return. The thought was simply this: That he would ruin Eternity, if he had to. The worst of it was that he knew he had the power to do it.
~ Isaac Asimov
It was not even necessary to formulate that idea as a specific thought.
~ Isaac Asimov
There's a lot of different styles of hypnosis. There's conversational hypnosis, which, even though we joke about it, politicians use conversational hypnosis. I've been hired back at home in Ireland by certain politicians to assist them in specific language patterns that will just tip people over into their, you know, into their zone.
~ Keith Barry
What is actual is actual only for one time, and only for one place.
~ T. S. Eliot
I get really excited about specific therapies, personalized therapies. Like, let's say, taking a piece of someone's tumor and testing a bunch of treatments in a lab and being able to come up with the right therapy for that specific patient.
~ Mary Roach
I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations.
~ John Negroponte
I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.
~ Lynn Redgrave
It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.
~ Rick Moody
There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to sort of embrace who the actors are and try to make the roles more specific to what they bring and what they can do.
~ Lucas Neff
Way back in 2008, when the iPhone was new and Instagram was a gleam in Kevin Systrom's eye, I was involved in creating a service called CrowdFire. It was a way for fans at a festival (the first was Outside Lands) to share photos, tweets, and texts in a location and event specific way.
~ John Battelle
There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific.
~ John Sayles
Dialogue that's distinctive, funny, peculiar, and specific is the main thing that makes me want to get involved with a film to begin with.
~ Terry Zwigoff
I think there's so many little specific things in the script [of "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"]. And the script was also structured so beautifully that I didn't want to mess with it.
~ Melanie Lynskey
It seemed I'd never before understood the meaning of the word regret. Now it seemed regret was the desperate desire to reverse a specific amount of time... It didn't seem to me that a tiny reversal of time was such a grand request to make of the universe. I would only need a few seconds changed, after all.
~ Susanna Daniel
It seems a very specific bid: I´ll take Famous Authors for five hundred.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
It was a passion neither of the mind nor of the heart, it was a force that comprehended them both, as if they were but the matter of love, its specific substance.
~ John Williams, Stoner
We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
focusing, rather, on the precise and vivid events that easily come to our minds.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You are so obtuse! Brontë says, exasperated. I am calm in my response. Do you mean stupid, or angular? You need to be more specific with your insults.
~ Neal Shusterman
Si la industria del espectáculo en el siglo XXse centraba en el éxito y la popularidad de los productos, la del siglo XXI se centrará en los nichos.
~ Chris Anderson
Ezra Furman And The Boy-Friends was a band with a specific mission - to be a really good rock'n'roll band. And we achieved it.
~ Ezra Furman
The audience will show up if you have authenticity. Like 'Moonlight,' there was stuff in there that is so specific to that community where the filmmakers grew up. Even if I don't understand everything they're talking about, I will love it if I feel that it's real.
~ Keiko Agena