Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.
... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.
Royalty mostly seem like members of some anachronistic faith, like the Amish, peculiar in gilded buggies.
It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.
The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible.
I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.
If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.
Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.
It was peculiar to be standing so close to him. He's just a man, but still, what a thing to be Neil Armstrong!
It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map.
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.
Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.
Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.
If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'
The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.
Whatever happens to science in schools, there's something peculiar going on if students don't see it as creative.
I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound.
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Shanghai was a peculiar city: so many people; everyone seemed to be working all the time. The skyline was beautiful.
His eyes are peculiar. There is nothing in them, like an eclair without the cream filling. It's wrong, lack of cream.
All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.
People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom
There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.
A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.
In a crazy, high-pressure environment like a film set, eventually a peculiar kind of empathy develops for your co-workers.
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.
I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.
Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.
Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.
Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.
No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.
Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep my soul.
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.
There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.