Be as creative in your tactics as you are in your writing. Find what gets your engine going, no matter how peculiar… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
“It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny. — Katherine Neville Copy Share Image
You're very plucky. You seem to be more than you seem. Peculiar, and yet simple. Odd, and yet nice. I like that. — Tahj Wilson Copy Share Image
It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the… — William James Copy Share Image
I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional… — Casey Spooner Copy Share Image
I got letters from people that have had peculiar psychic experiences, experiences with the dead - sometimes fairly tranquil experiences and sometimes… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Self-Made Men are those who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, or friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate. — Stephen Tobolowsky Copy Share Image
My career has evolved at its own peculiar pace. American careers are supposed to have a much more singular direction than I've… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any pop music directed at the peculiar class of anger that I know women of my age feel. — Victoria Williams Copy Share Image
Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical. — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It's a peculiar response that people have. — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
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![“Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]” quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a3b/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_dies_gifts-come-from-above-in-their-own-pecul_904349.jpg)
