“If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen.” IfsNeedsLightTurnsAsksCan DoSpecialConditionsMediumsOperationsChemicalsHymnsAffinityChemistHydrogen Book:Lo! Source: Lo!
“There's people that focus on the game and forget about the art. There's that specific special individual that can do both.” PeopleArtGamesIndividualCan DoForgetFocusSpecialMma Author:Conor McGregor
“We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they're bosses. There's a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate the world and flip authority the finger - especially if we can do it with snazzy special effects.” PeopleIfsWorldLooksLittlesLanguageFunBitsCan DoSpecialEffectsReadyAuthorityLittle BitScientistMadFingersIncludingBunchBossConfusingDeep DownFlipHacksPunHackersSpecial EffectsMad Scientist Author:Eric S. Raymond
“It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it once, and if the new lot let us down, we can do it again!" It was that proud, menacing confidence which made the French revolution special. But it's not around in 21st-century Europe. After 1989, the people handed over liberty to the experts. Will they ever want it back?” PeopleIfsWantMadeRealDoneFeelingsCan DoLibertySpecialCenturyMissingRevolutionProudEuropeFeaturesExperts21st CenturyFrench Revolution Author:Neal Ascherson
“Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.” WayFeelsI CanPainCan DoSpecialDutyStoresFeel GoodTherapyTensionMusclesInjuryRemoveSpecial PlacesI Can Do This Author:Douglas Coupland
“Sometimes I wonder about the people who can do very reflective work about their own ethnic group or their own families, or comedies that take place in the life that they've grown up in. That's a very special fortitude. Other brains have a curiosity for what they don't know - the life they're not leading.” PeopleKnowsSometimesCan DoBrainWonderComedyGroupsSpecialCuriosityFortitudeSometimes I WonderEthnic Groups Author:Debra Granik
“Vaccination is pretty special because you can do a vaccination campaign anywhere in the world. All you are doing is gathering women from the villages, getting them the vaccines and asking them to go around and find the children.” WorldChildrenCan DoSpecialAskingCampaignsVillageGatheringVaccinesVaccinations Author:Bill Gates
“The worst thing you can do for love is deny it; so when you find that special someone, don't let anyone or anything to get in your way.” WayCan DoLove IsWorstSpecialDenyWorst ThingsSpecial Someone Author:Gary Zukav
“There are children who recognize that they have a special role, and they enjoy it. But there are also many who sense that they can't do what the others can do, and they're happy to be placed in a protected school. It depends on their personalities.” ChildrenSchoolEnjoyCan DoRolesSpecialPersonalityDependsProtected Author:Gotz Aly
“My dream is to make the world's scariest PG movie. Because I feel that if you can do that, then you've done something special.” IfsWorldFeelsDoneDreamCan DoSpecialSomething Special Author:Matthew Gray Gubler
“I think whatever it is you decide to do in life, if you want to be the very best at it, you have to be able to make sacrifices. Not everybody can do that and I think it makes our sportsmen and women that little bit special.” IfsThinkingWantLittlesAbleBitsCan DoSacrificeSpecialLittle BitMen And WomenSportsman Author:Jill Douglas
“The smaller and younger kids are, the more patient you have to be. But if they're gifted, then it's a wonderful present that you're given by having a child like that in your film... more so than in the case of actors because, for example, if you ask them to play a lion, they don't then play a lion, they actually are a lion. So, a gifted child is something very special. On the other hand, if a child has no gifts in that way it's absolutely hopeless and there's nothing you can do!” IfsWayChildrenPlayHandsKidsFilmActorsAsksGivenCan DoCasesWonderfulSpecialExamplePatientHopelessLionsGiftedGifted Children Author:Michael Haneke