“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I had no idea what effect something blockbustering would have. To me, it was just a job that I was trying to… — Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs Copy Share Image
We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“One or two steps alone do not guarantee the evidence of your success unless you have your own peculiar definition for success.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which… — Henry James Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists,… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves… — Honore de Balzac 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
Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent. — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
I got to watch my heroes meet him and saw how they reacted, whether it was Joe Strummer or Tom Waits. It… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition. — Rudolf Hiferding 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
I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up,… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
We shall see that the mathematical treatment of the subject [of electricity] has been greatly developed by writers who express themselves in… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost… — Alexander Hamilton 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
