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Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.
Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.
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.
Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.
Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
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.
There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.
I never wanted credit for being a wonderful person or a great human being or looking peculiar. I just wanted credit for the music.
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.
The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.
I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?
Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply.
I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.
My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.
The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.
I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.
Be as creative in your tactics as you are in your writing. Find what gets your engine going, no matter how peculiar it may seem to others.
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.
While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way.
Engineers don't get drafted to certain companies. That's kind of peculiar in the capitalistic ways of the United States. But that's how it is.
I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.
There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.
I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness.
This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.
To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized.
John Goodman is like the Jackie Chan of acting. Any prop that you put in front of him, he's going to take advantage of it in some peculiar way.
Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage that I admire.
We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.
All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.
Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.
I loved the idea of a book of fairytales meant especially for peculiar children, and I love even more the idea of making that fictional book real.
It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.
That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.
A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.
Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.