“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
For a moment he could have sworn he smelled violets, which was very peculiar, since he had no idea what violets smelled… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now… — Richard Owen 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
I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and… — William Carey Copy Share Image
Now it's of peculiar interest to an Arab country that there is a company and a certain set of bankers who also… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. — Christian Nestell Bovee 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
For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together. — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise. — Sallie Tisdale Copy Share Image
The tension to mother the "right" way can leave a peculiar silence within mother daughter relationships--the silence of a mother'sown truth and… — Elizabeth Debold Copy Share Image
“To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was “system,” and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations… — Shirley Bassey Copy Share Image
What sets 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' apart is Riggs's use of 'found' photographs as a spark of inspiration for the… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
