Particular Quotes - Page 28

• There is something eminently Chilean about avoiding confrontation, or about not clarifying the way you feel sometimes. It's a particular culture, where emotions are not discussed as profusely with your family or friends, nor shown in an explicit manner.

  Omar Zuniga

  Culture, Way, Emotion

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In this particular business [cinema], you don't choose your own experiences. They start to happen and then they start to peel off and make other ones happen, and then you can start choosing. But it happens to you.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Cinema, Happens

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Writing's not precious to me. It's not a thing that requires specific environment. You know, it's my job. Just like anybody with a job, you have to do your job when you don't feel like it, regardless of how good or bad the conditions are, regardless of how good or bad you might feel on any particular day.

  James Frey

  Jobs, Writing, Might

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the person's.

  Marge Piercy

  Life Is, Economic, Circumstances

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically nothing in a way - , there's no particular performance that is definitive in the way a novel is a solid object you hold in your hands and here it is. You can't say that about a play. If the novel gives us a sense of throbbing consciousness, theater is pure soul, beautiful and elusive.

  Don DeLillo

  Beautiful, Mean, Frustration

  Interview with Marc Chénetier, François Happe, perival.com. March 11, 1999.

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• I think an editing style is something that is ascribed to the work after-the-fact. I don't think you go in with a particular intention, but I think if there is an integrity to the work and the material you are working with, the work comes from the nature of that material.

  Jay Cassidy

  Integrity, Thinking, Editing

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I have always admired organizations that help children grow and learn, and organizations that protect and shelter children when no one else does. And I wanted to draw attention to these organizations and recognize the contributions they were making to the country and to our children in particular.

  Laura Bush

  Country, Children, Organization

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• If the poem is so moving that even if you have no experience in that particular setting be it 1920's Harlem let's say. You still are so moved that you can put yourself in that position. That means that the writer has managed to go beyond the personal and touch the humanity in all of us and it's really a blast to read it because I realize how that this does hold true for the truly great poems.

  Rita Dove

  Moving, Mean, Humanity

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• It's a foreground of my feeling. That place moves me. And I don't mean my country; it's part of our shared natural world that happens to be particular to a sense of wherever my storytelling inclinations come from and my own history of kind of being a road rat and travelling.

  Sean Penn

  Country, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Honestly, I think it's dumb luck that I'm able to kind of get away doing different types of films in different genres. There's always a tendency to kind of stick with what works, or stick with one particular kind of brand or movie. But so far I've been getting away with it, so I'm going to continue to do that for as long as I can.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, Long, Dumb

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think probably winning these things [an Oscar] can be a bit of a curse depending on who you are and how you think. But I haven't been on a journey to get anywhere in particular, so that hasn't changed. And my criteria for choosing projects hasn't changed.

  Cate Blanchett

  Winning, Journey, Thinking

  "Notes On A Scandal - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mean, Attention, Pay

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.

  James Anthony Froude

  Real, Different, Tests

  James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.14

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• There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inlinkng of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living... In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution.

  James Truslow Adams

  Confused, Men, Years

  "To 'Be' or to 'DO'" Forum, Volume LXXXI, No. 6, June 1929.

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• Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.

  Thomas Merton

  Religious, Consciousness, Form

  Thomas Merton (2000). “Thoughts On The East”, p.43, A&C Black

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• Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.

  Joan Didion

  Notebook, Self, Should Have

  Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

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• I do spend a great deal of time alone. I'm not very gregarious. I don't like parties and miscellaneous gatherings with no particular purpose. I think parties are largely a mistake. The bigger they are the more mistaken they are.

  William S. Burroughs

  Mistake, Party, Thinking

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• I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.

  George Washington

  Country, Mean, Law

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.159

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• For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power?

  James Madison

  Purpose, Were Meant To Be, Ifs

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government”, p.225, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lambs, Asks

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• The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  People, Progress, Crime

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.253, Library of Alexandria

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• Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place," we posit an intimate relationship to a set of stories connected to a particular location, such as Hong Kong or the Grand Canyon or the bed where we were born, thinking of histories and the evolution of personalities in a local context. Having "a sense of self" means possessing a set of stories about who we are and with whom and why.

  William Kittredge

  Mean, Thinking, Intimate Relationships

  William Kittredge (2010). “The Nature of Generosity”, p.13, Vintage

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• The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite. If you want to believe in a particular one of them - teapots, unicorns, or tooth fairies, Thor or Yahweh - the onus is on you to say why you believe in it. The onus is not on the rest of us to say why we do not. We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Believe, Want

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• Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical "particular conciousness." Rather it is the result of a social activity, since the existing stock of knowledge exceeds the range available to any one individual.

  Ludwik Fleck

  Cognition, Individual, Social

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• Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to ends and that, in accepting certain means, they unconsciously accept the ends that make them so. In other words, they accept whatever philosophy happens to be embodied in the values and institutions of a particular civilation.

  Georges Canguilhem

  Philosophy, Mean, People

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