George Gaylord Simpson (1902–1984) American paleontologist
Cited in: Edward J. Larson (2004) Evolution, Modern Library. p. 250
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“My specialty is really painting moonlight – but I will not forget the sunshine.”
Johan Jongkind (1819–1891) Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism
Jongkind's quote in an early letter (1840's), to his Dutch friend Eugène Smits; as cited by nl:Victorine Hefting, in Jongkinds's Universe, Henri Scrépel, Paris, 1976, p. 69
“My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.”
George Bernard Shaw You Never Can Tell
You Never Can Tell, Act IV
1890s
“It is my craft and my science to Watch. It is yours to jeer. Each of us to our specialty.”
Robert Silverberg (1935) American speculative fiction writer and editor
Section 1
Short fiction, Nightwings (1968)
“A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty”
Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) Historian
"A Loyalty Oath for Scholars," The American Scholar (Summer 1951)
Context: A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty; and must not be burdened with my work as if he followed no other and had contracted no obligation under heaven but that of satisfying my requirements.
“Breaking things is a specialty of everyone in Fairy Tail”
Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist
Source: Fairy Tail, Vol. 12
“Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it.”
Mark Twain book The American Claimant
The American Claimant, foreword (1892)
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
