The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that,… — Zachary Lazar Copy Share Image
Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance.… — Cole Younger Copy Share Image
You know, fans who think we were made for each other and describe it in excruciating detail. You get peculiar things and… — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for… — David Pilbeam Copy Share Image
If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense? — Imelda Staunton Copy Share Image
Actors are not always the best judges. We have a peculiar idea of what we think we are, and sometimes it's best… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Maybe your life resembles a Bethlehem stable. Crude in some spots, smelly in others. Not much glamour. Not always neat. People in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence.… — George Polya Copy Share Image
