Particular Quotes - Page 5

• Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will read the next book, unless both are Harlequin Romances, in a slightly different way.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reading, Book, Romance

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some things of such Consequence still depending there, relating to my particular Conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my Name, or the Account of my Family to this Work; perhaps, after my Death it may be better known, at present it would not be proper, no, not tho' a general Pardon should be issued, even without Exceptions and reserve of Persons or Crimes.

  Daniel Defoe

  Book, Names, Records

  Daniel Defoe (1993). “Moll Flanders”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• Superstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will mean a particular thing is coming. Oh yes it does.

  Gertrude Stein

  Believe, Mean, Doe

  Gertrude Stein, Richard Kostelanetz (2002). “The Gertrude Stein Reader: The Great American Pioneer of Avant-garde Letters”, p.88, Rowman & Littlefield

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• You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Happiness, Thinking, Things In Life

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.172, Penguin

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• I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in your own particular way.

  Maurice Sendak

  Hate, School, Way

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• If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

  Andre Breton

  Discipline, Lines, Moral

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• Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.

  Sheila Rowbotham

  Power, Reality, Hands

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• For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.

  Hannah Arendt

  Choices, Being Different, Infinite

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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• Dublin ... is not only the capital of a nation, but the capital of an idea. The idea of Irishness is not universally beloved. Some people mock it, some hate it, some fear it. On the whole, though, I think it fair to say, the world interprets it chiefly as a particular kind of happiness, a happiness sometimes boozy and violent, but essentially innocent: and this ineradicable spirit of merriment informs the Dublin genius to this day.

  Jan Morris

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

  Jan Morris (1976). “Travels”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Biblical higher criticism is preserved in the particular enclave of academic Christian scholarship and is thought to be too unfruitful to share with the average pew-sitter, for it raises more questions than the church can adequately answer. So the leaders of the church would protect the simple believers from concepts they were not trained to understand. In this way that ever-widening gap between academic Christians and the average pew-sitter made its first appearance.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Biblical, Simple

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• If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Food, Wine, Sleep

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• There's not one thing in particular that influences my music, but I write about what I know. It's based in personal experience. That's not to say all the songs are biographical, because sometimes it's what I've seen in others' lives.

  Holly Golightly

  Song, Writing, Sometimes

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• Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people. The book gives me a similar experience. I love being able to hold this object in my hands and say, “This is mine. I made this. It is a gift for you.” I love that feeling. Especially since this particular object contains ten years worth of my poems.

  Sarah Kay

  Art, Book, Love Is

  Interview with Jennifer Messing, journalwomenwriters.wordpress.com. August 5, 2014.

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• As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside.

  Philip Massinger

  Men, Blood, Order

  Philip Massinger (1805). “The plays of Philip Massinger, with notes by W. Gifford”, p.413

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• There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Drinking, Men, Ties

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• There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

  Alec Waugh

  Strong, Moving, Future

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• Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.

  Anthony Holden

  Love, Running, Baseball

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• Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.

  Margaret Millar

  Crazy, Would Be, Culture

  Margaret Millar (2016). “A Stranger in My Grave”, p.45, Soho Press

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• When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Desire, Persons

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• The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.

  Jilly Cooper

  Upper Class, Feet, Good Man

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• I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of creation that is the source of us all. When you strike out at someone else's achievement you are attacking your own share of a great gift.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Art, Creativity, Achievement

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• That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  Art, Individual, Manifest

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• The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where it proved that explanation and prediction could be based on laws which accounted for the observed phenomena as functions of comparatively few variables - either particular facts or relative frequencies of events.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Law, Events, Variables

  Friedrich August von Hayek's Prize Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1974.

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• I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual, silent, and secret conversation with God that fills me with overwhelming joy.

  Brother Lawrence

  God, Teacher, Prayer

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• Darren Criss in particular enjoys his spanking. In case you were curious.

  Paris Barclay

  Curious, Darren, Cases

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