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
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof...What I mean is that… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“When you meet a dark angel don't you ever for one minute believe they are bad because they have faced the worst… — Shannon L. Alder 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
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
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
All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form.… — William Carlos Williams 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
I think that most of my books are part of some process of self-education, often about the places I go to. Most… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs. — Walter Bradford Cannon Copy Share Image
At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be… — George Horace Lorimer 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
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become… — James Hollis 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
