Special Breed Quotes

#1. [About a conference on Systematic Biology] Many interesting statements were made that apply directly to the work of taxonomists. In some cases the interest lay in the value of the suggestion and sometimes in the obvious need for rebuttal.

Richard E. Blackwelder

#2. They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.

Sean O'Grady

#3. Our days are precious but we gladly see them going
If in their place we find a thing more precious growing:
A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart delighting;
A child whom we are teaching, a booklet we are writing.

Hermann Hesse

#4. I think sitting behind a keyboard can be a security blanket.

Lia Ices

#5. She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.

Lloyd Alexander

#6. When equality is treated ... as an ideal, we begin to breed that stunted and envious sort of mind which hates all superiority. That mind is the special disease of democracy, as cruelty and servility are the special diseases of privileged societies. It will kill us all if it grows unchecked.

C.S. Lewis

#7. Occupation is the scythe of time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. Novelists are a special breed. They cannot genuinely trust anything they have not seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands (Salon, 20 February 2009).

Haruki Murakami

#9. Festinger argued that in reality we usually just find a way to ignore or discount dissonant information.

David Patrick Houghton

#10. We Pisces, we're a special breed.

Jodi Picoult

#11. You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

Margaret Atwood

#12. Let us learn things in the time they will take to learn

Chris Murray

#13. Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky

John Grogan

#14. The gypsies were a special breed. It wasn't blood that flowed through their veins but rhythm.

Laekan Zea Kemp

#15. New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God.

Tim LaHaye

#16. We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Stephen Hawking

#17. I love my privacy too, but at the end of the day, when it comes down to it with my woman, I call her a "special cloth alert." She's a rare breed and I love her and I don't ever want her to change because I think that's the balance of my relationship.

DJ Khaled

#18. In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.

Albert Einstein

#19. Shepard's theory of law had roused his intelligence, and gratified it, and he again felt master of his faculties.

Eleanor Catton

#20. Television is my home. It's a special breed of person that can do nine months on and three months off, with 22 episodes of one-hour shows. It's very hard work. It can be a grind. It's not a grind for me. I relish in that.

Charisma Carpenter

#21. In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed.

Hunter S. Thompson

#22. The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons.

Randall Jarrell

#23. We can't say what God is, and until the modern period, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians in the three God religions all knew that. They insisted that we have no idea what we meant when we said that God was good, or wise, or intelligent.

Karen Armstrong