Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar". — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar. — Joel Hodgson Copy Share Image
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
Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
I was at school and trying to fit in, like most kids, I didn't want to be outside the herd. Then all… — Joey Barton Copy Share Image
The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for… — Malorie Blackman Copy Share Image
Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community,… — Terence McKenna 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
I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar… — Hans Richter Copy Share Image
The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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