Practically everything I did as an experiment while I was working on the book made me feel cold, angry, and decidedly peculiar.… — Joan Juliet Buck Copy Share Image
The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“Of course you are peculiar. If the world continues its present trend, and if you walk in obedience to the doctrines and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
I suppose when I was writing 'V for Vendetta' I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: 'Wouldn't it be… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar… — Wallace Stegner 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
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
To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Generally, it's a great exercise to not get stuck in one medium too long because you begin to lose perspective on the… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply… — S. Parkes Cadman Copy Share Image
“Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
So overall, though my life is far from perfect, I'm contented with it. And in a peculiar way, I'm grateful for the… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is… — Klaus Mann Copy Share Image
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is… — Isaac Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
One of the peculiar features of philosophical questions is how eager people are to offer solutions that miss the point of the… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshireis full of people who have a peculiar passion for their own… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
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