Top 40 Specialised Quotes
#1. I thought you specialised in dishonest finesse?"
"I also do a brisk trade in putting knives to peoples' throats and shouting at them," said Locke.
Scott Lynch
#2. I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black women. In other words, Black feminist thought encompasses theoretical interpretations of Black women's reality by those who live it.
Patricia Hill Collins
#3. Back in the 1980s, the 'News of the World' had specialised in digging into the privacy of criminals. In the 1990s, enriched by the excavation of Princess Diana's volatile life, they had widened their work to mine the activities of any celebrity, any public figure.
Nick Davies
#4. Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world.
Jeffrey Sachs
#5. When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.
Estelle
#6. I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.
David Mamet
#7. Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.
Jean Piaget
#8. I have always had the feeling that organic chemistry is a very peculiar science, that organic chemists are unlike other men, and there are few occupations that give more satisfactions [sic] than masterly experimentation along the old lines of this highly specialised science.
Lawrence Joseph Henderson
#9. I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding school in Devon and I suffered from dyslexia quite badly, but they had a very good department there which specialised in it.
Joseph Mawle
#10. We are all specialised forms of survivor. We lack what we fundamentally need and forge ahead regardless, hurriedly hiding our wounds, disguising our ineptitude, bluffing our way through our weaknesses.
Michel Faber
#11. The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.
Walter Lippmann
#12. The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.
Bertrand Russell
#13. A linguist who specialised in the languages of incense and burnt offerings, of moths and radial cremations.
Benjanun Sriduangkaew
#14. By 1914, the royal families of Europe were inbred to the point of pantomine. You feel about them as you do about koalas. Nothing so stupid has any right to exist on the planet. On the other hand, they are rather cute, and in grave danger of extinction due to their specialised needs.
Nancy Banks-Smith
#15. The library, like the thrift shop, specialised in the leavings of the elderly dead.
Nell Zink
#16. Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
Alvar Aalto
#17. 'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.
Mark Morris
#18. The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
Aaron Klug
#19. I think brands should go back to being more specialised and focused on particular market segments. Sometimes the business you don't do is more important than that which you actually do.
Mark Price
#20. Guess your feelings is like charming a cobra with a stethoscope, a boyfriend told me once. Meaning what? Meaning that pain turned me venomous, that diagnosing me required a specialised kind of enchantment, that I flaunted feelings and withheld their origins at once.
Leslie Jamison
#21. Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas (technical warrant officer trainee specialised in aircraft jet engines)
Tarja Moles
#22. When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of functionality?
Matt Mullenweg
#23. John Gurdon spent around fifteen years, starting in the late 1950s, demonstrating that in fact nuclei from specialised cells are able to create whole animals if placed in the right environment i.e. an unfertilised egg
Nessa Carey
#24. The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
John Maynard Keynes
#25. Fundamentally, we have broken our aerospace business into three parts - large parts which go into the wings and fuselage, components for jet engines, and specialised structural components for landing gear.
Baba Kalyani
#26. Who you are is not where you've been ...
You're still an innocent.
Taylor Swift
#27. Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round me this year.
William Carlos Williams
#28. Tried to figure a logic of it, but the dots had collapsed like marbles and that had been good
Steve Merrick
#29. I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.
Sophocles
#30. And I'm supposed to believe that Reagan was a great leader? This is who he chose as the Secretary of Education ...
William Bennett
#31. Shakira is a new friend, but I love her dearly already. She's so sweet and adorable and hilarious.
Adam Levine
#32. The chief al Qaeda recruiting tool is the net.
Bill O'Reilly
#33. Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
Wayne Dyer
#34. If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence.
Barack Obama
#35. You are strong ... Together we will rule the world."
"You mean, 'Together we will defeat Apophis,'" my mother corrected.
"Of course," Isis said. "That's what I meant.
Rick Riordan
#37. It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.
Paul Westerberg
#38. I'll always remember 1995 as the year i found out Star Trek wasn't real
Daniel Johns
#39. I think it's ridiculous when people say, 'I don't date actors.' It's about the right person, and no matter what that right person does for a profession, they're still going to be the right person.
Rob McClure
#40. Timing was everything when it came to being a woman - the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.
J. Courtney Sullivan
