#specific

I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#being #big #channel #could #fan

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#certain #dictionary #find #focused #how

I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll approach it and write specifically to see how the pieces fit in the puzzle. ↗

— Matt Sharp

#everything #few #few things #fit #fits

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#designs #exact #exact measure #had #her

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#enough #good #ground #instinct #just

The more specific you are, the more general it'll be. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#more #specific #you

If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#becomes #center #chip #dizzying #got

I'm really not that weird. I'm a combination of a lot of different things. Maybe it's just easier to make me look weird than another model who is specifically Caucasian. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#caucasian #combination #different #different things #easier

I don't really like to talk specifically about customers by name - but we work with nearly all the leading manufacturers of consumer products worldwide and at quite a detailed engineering level. ↗

— David Milne

#consumer #customers #detailed #engineering #i

It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#calling #gift #god #host #listed