It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar,… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which… — Gerd Sommerhoff Copy Share Image
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
Such a fuss ofer a few mundanes." Mrs Dark chuckled and moved to stand beside her sister, so that Will, with his… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I am almost certain fishermen posess a peculiar bend to their makeup. Fisherman are optimists, and the fish in the future is… — Joseph Monninger Copy Share Image
The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
As our president bears no resemblance to a king so we shall see the Senate has no similitude to nobles. First, not… — Tench Coxe 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
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
One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Light enhances but its shadow deletes, thus giving the picture its depth, its third dimension and its subtractive properties... I believe that… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to… — Frederick Buechner 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
His eyes are peculiar. There is nothing in them, like an eclair without the cream filling. It's wrong, lack of cream. — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of… — Rohinton Mistry 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
A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives. — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
