I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that…

There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.

— Alice Thomas Ellis

“This one, I guess," he says. I look over at the counter, he is looking back at me. He is holding a riding crop:…

— Elizabeth McNeill

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

— J. G. Holland

A good aspect of me is that I'm not too particular about things. A bad aspect is that I'm indecisive.

— Akira Toriyama

There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular…

— James Hillman

What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

— William Shakespeare

I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I…

— Ransom Riggs

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument…

— Adam Smith

“tiempo tiene su peculiar manera de moldear a la gente de forma que ellos mismos ya no se reconocen,”

— Kate Morton

The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from…

— Richard Owen

For a moment he could have sworn he smelled violets, which was very peculiar, since he had no idea what violets smelled like, except…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what…

— A. E. Housman

The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.

— Swami Vivekananda

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,…

— Terry Pratchett