What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things. — G. Gordon Liddy Copy Share Image
The idea of being a single woman in Hollywood is a very peculiar thing. — Marsha Mason Copy Share Image
“FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Happy Ending I did with Paul Winfield. There was a play- within- the- play and I was his mother - which is… — Brett Somers Copy Share Image
While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious. — Nathan Hale Copy Share Image
I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound. — Frank Welker Copy Share Image
Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A thing that has always baffled me about women is that they will saturate themselves with a pint of perfume, a pound… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture… — John Brown Copy Share Image
The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally,… — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
Gathering is peculiar, because you see nothing but what you're looking for. If you're picking raspberries, you see only what's red, and… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
I was at school and trying to fit in, like most kids, I didn't want to be outside the herd. Then all… — Joey Barton Copy Share Image
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The Romans called the Christians atheists. Why? Well, the Christians had a god of sorts, but it wasn't a real god. They… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar… — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
