I wanted to work with those boys (producers Andy and Larry Wachowski) because they're so eccentric and peculiar. Larry, of course, is… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really… — Nick Lowe 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 interest of magic squares and all lusus numerorum in general lies in the fact that they possess the charm of… — Paul Carus Copy Share Image
But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
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I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, Pechblende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth Copy Share Image
Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow-men,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The rate of growth of the relevant population is much greater than the rate of growth in funds, though funds have gone… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
My witness is, that those who are honoured of their Lord in public, have usually to endure a secret chastening, or to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends,… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
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The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon… — Josef Pieper 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
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It is out of reality that the most peculiar tale of all is born ... Some call me the Elder Granny, others… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
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It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national… — John Montgomery Ward Copy Share Image
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