Top 100 In Particular Quotes
#1. I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
Hugo Weaving
#2. I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.
Anatoly Karpov
#3. There is a real function for government in respect to pollution: to set conditions and, in particular, define property rights to make sure that the costs are borne by the parties responsible.
Milton Friedman
#4. Miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.
Rose Macaulay
#5. You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads - in particular, what he likes and what he disdains - as from what he writes himself.
Rodney Ulyate
#6. My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.
Hugh Jackman
#7. I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
Barbra Streisand
#8. I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.
Edwin Moses
#9. Medicare in particular will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program no matter how much taxes go up.
Barack Obama
#10. If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.
Guido Van Rossum
#11. Problems. (Id. at 1379-83.) In particular, the court pointed
Anonymous
#12. Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#13. I always tell young people in particular, "Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s, or '60s, or '70s."
Barack Obama
#14. Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob and left him drained of ... energy.
John Keegan
#15. I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.
Giles Foden
#16. I think Nevada is going to really be the first true test of whether or not these candidates have particular strengths in particular demographics.
Lucy Flores
#17. I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.
Johann Lamont
#18. Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.
Theodore Guerin
#19. In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#20. And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.
Norman MacCaig
#21. Men in particular need to speak more about their personal reasons for wanting diversity in the workplace.
Jane Silber
#22. Men in particular," he went on, stating the loathsome truth, "are given a fair amount of leeway in the public eye.
Lucy Parker
#23. The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?
David Sarnoff
#24. Music has always been important to me. Rhythm, in particular, features in most of the things I do. I stumbled recently upon an old notebook in which I'd written, 'Touch, timing and timbre ... keys to the heart.' That just about says it all.
James Nares
#25. The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters.
Kurt Student
#26. Israel is the number one rogue state threat to Middle Eastern peace with its nuclear arms and acts of outright aggression towards its peaceful neighbours Syria and Lebanon - and genocidal actions against the marginalised Palestinians of the West Bank - and Gaza in particular.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#27. The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.
Dinaw Mengestu
#28. Yet often the mountain gives itself most completely when I have no destination, when I reach nowhere in particular, but have gone out merely to be with the mountain as one visits a friend with no intention but to be with him.
Nan Shepherd
#29. It has become starkly apparent to me that we lack any sort of strategic foreign policy view, and when I say 'we,' I mean the country in general, but in particular, the Republican Party.
Marco Rubio
#30. Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.
Jean De La Bruyere
#31. Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see that others are giving. The richest people, in particular, should be setting an example.
Peter Singer
#32. Discovering L.A., in particular in the early '80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys' ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.
Zach Galligan
#33. The issue I have always felt most strongly about is hunger in America, in particular the children.
Sandra Lee
#34. The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.
Idris Elba
#35. War is like a fire, Agnes. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.
T.H. White
#36. If you ask the average person on the street about U.S. energy and U.S. oil in particular, our situation, most Americans would say, 'Oh, we're energy poor; we don't have enough oil; we don't have enough natural gas.'
Rex Tillerson
#37. Generally there is Stigler's law of Eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler.
Dennis Lindley
#38. I slammed out of the [house] and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door.
Ransom Riggs
#39. I said that I had heard curiosity could be harmful, in particular to cats
Michael Chabon
#40. Positive response from some of our exporters and holders of free funds in response to some of the turnaround initiatives ... in particular the favourable exchange rate policies.
Gideon Gono
#41. No secret that I enjoy motor sports and cars in particular, building cars, building custom cars. Part of that scene. I love the flow of the cars and I love the art part of them. I love the sleekness and the uniqueness of each car that you can dream up.
James Hetfield
#42. 18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.
Bill Bryson
#43. There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.
Connie Britton
#44. What is will? It is a decision. It is a decision to be something. We really aren't anything in particular. We can be anything. That's the good news.
Frederick Lenz
#45. Our fashion is for everyone and, throughout the years, we have had the possibility of working with the world's most beautiful and charming women and men. There is no person in particular who we would like to work with that we haven't already worked with.
Domenico Dolce
#46. Global warming hysterics generally have limited scientific knowledge, and of geology and meteorology in particular. Their belief is not science; it's more akin to religion. The main epicenter of hysteria is not the scientific community but seems to be Hollywood.
Doug Casey
#47. I don't want to get pigeonholed just doing just family films and fantasy films ... I don't really want to get pigeonholed just doing anything in particular.
Dave McKean
#48. That's what terrorism is, basically - pure theater. Nothing in particular is ever accomplished by it, other than to focus attention on a small group of people who seize absolute power by threatening everything that holds civilization together.
Dorothy Gilman
#49. I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
Jack Dorsey
#50. It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.
Cornelius Plantinga
#51. I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.
Max Roach
#52. TLC has helped me to know that as a musician, I can talk about anything; that there are no barriers, and that you can be yourself. That's what I love about them. Left Eye in particular helped me to stay on top of my A game. She's one of the best female MCs that I've heard.
Lil' Mama
#53. One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.
Jonah Goldberg
#54. Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.
Pope Benedict XVI
#55. I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.
Oprah Winfrey
#56. When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.
Howard Shore
#57. The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
John Locke
#58. We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible.
Edsger Dijkstra
#59. The main problem was I don't like people in general and people my age in particular, and people my age are the ones who go to college.
Peter Cameron
#60. I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the reader when you give young characters that kind of agency.
Robert Paul Weston
#61. Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her as some sort of cross between Mother Teresa and Marilyn Monroe.
Julie Burchill
#62. I don't think it's important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don't really want to be anything in particular.
Elliott Smith
#63. I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.
Kenneth P. Thompson
#64. In particular, there was a butler in a blue coat and bright buttons, who gave quite a winey flavour to the table beer; he poured it out so superbly.
Charles Dickens
#65. Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular.
Christine Lahti
#66. Sometimes, and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.
Tony Blair
#67. gazed blankly at nothing in particular. I knew that look. They were the Russells of the group.
Bobby Adair
#68. It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it.
Friedrich Hayek
#69. 'The New 52,' I was really excited that new people got to jump in on books. In particular, on 'Aqua Man.'
Geoff Johns
#70. I can't say there was one thing in particular that helped prepare me for life beyond basketball except for the exposure to college and that laboratory, that allows us to learn who and what we are, and to be able to utilize that knowledge in real life.
Len Elmore
#71. There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.
Lascelles Abercrombie
#72. When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.
Leighton Meester
#73. Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#74. Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into a men's shelter where they face enormous danger, or remaining street homeless and facing the violence, harassment, arrest, and exposure risks of that.
Dean Spade
#75. Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.
Margaret Kennedy
#76. The basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to inspire full human-beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives.
Chogyam Trungpa
#77. I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.
Imelda May
#78. I am grieved for my children - and boy's in particular - that this modern age is emasculating men under the guise of "the best interest of the children".
H. Kirk Rainer
#79. 'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
S.E. Hinton
#80. Medical science in particular will get exponentially better, especially once computers will be powerful enough to digitally simulate entire human brains, meaning medical experiments that would normally take years can be digitally run taking only hours.
Benjamin Stone
#81. God is one answer to our need to explain ourselves, to make sense of ourselves. But the moment you just accept yourself, then no explanation is needed, and god is everything together and nothing in particular.
Adrienne Maree Brown
#82. I didn't go out shooting for anybody in particular because I shot for everybody unparticular. I make records for Muslims, Christians, rock 'n roll kids, skateboard kids.
Lupe Fiasco
#83. From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone else, to flaunt your intelligence and insights instead of every band sounding alike, like what plagues punk music in particular today.
Jello Biafra
#84. The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening in the story as I'm going along.
John Scalzi
#85. Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.
Julie Taymor
#86. Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more important role in global economy and politics and that Asia will become an important engine for the world economy.
Li Keqiang
#87. The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
William Gilbert
#88. Praying anywhere" can easily become "praying nowhere", just as "praying anytime" can easily become "praying at no time". Everything in general becomes nothing in particular".
Peter Kreeft
#89. I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circumstances or because they are predisposed to, choose fantasy over reality.
Cate Blanchett
#90. In particular, it lacked the skills to carry out pacification effectively - or as Kissinger politely put it, the special qualities developed in a decade or more of combat training do not include discriminating political judgment in volatile and complex circumstances.
Niall Ferguson
#92. Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
Aberjhani
#93. It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.
Karl Kraus
#94. I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?
Simon Raven
#95. With the right information at our fingertips, we can always make better decisions. That is one of the reasons I'm working with Tom's of Maine, in particular. For decades they've provided information about ingredients, their purpose and source.
Sophie Heyman Uliano
#96. Skinner proposed that the environment had a much greater effect on the individual than previously thought. In particular, he proposed that to improve human race we need focus on creating better environments, rather than better people. Because good environments will conduce to good people.
Jose Berengueres
#97. Now if only I could do something about my neurosis that forces me to narrate my life out loud for everyone to hear, I said, to no one in particular.
Iain S. Thomas
#99. A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.
Mikhail Lermontov
#100. I think kids in Europe have developed a deeper knowledge of music and of black music in particular. You go to Europe, and these kids know about all this obscure funk and soul that kids over here wouldn't know. I think it's getting better in the States, though, with the age of the Internet.
Lenny Kravitz
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