Specificity Formula Quotes

#1. This relative freedom of a hero does not violate the strict specificity of the construction, just as the specificity of a mathematical formula is not violated by the presence of irrational or transfinite quantities.

Mikhail Bakhtin

#2. So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

Vikram Seth

#3. To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things ...

Muriel Barbery

#4. I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.

Pras Michel

#5. A spiritual law that few recognize is that our confession rules us. It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner being.

F. F. Bosworth

#6. A resistless feeling of depression falls slowly upon us, despite the gaudy sunshine and the green cotton-fields. This, then, is the Cotton Kingdom
the shadow of a marvelous dream.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#7. I am a Gordian knot. Don't unravel, just slice.

Orson Scott Card

#8. We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up.

George Osborne

#9. People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Ian McKellen

#10. Endurance is spiritual.

Lailah Gifty Akita