We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk… — Rabbit Maranville Copy Share Image
For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players… — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity.… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it's imminent, that the world… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures;… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Up to the days of Indiana's early statehood, probably as late as 1825, there stood, in what is now the beautiful little… — Maurice Thompson Copy Share Image
Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
I'm creating a peculiar place so that it will give hope for houses to open up worldwide. For I will need houses,… — Chuck Pierce Copy Share Image
No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to… — Josephus Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt-and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness-a little relieved… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence… — Susan Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
The love of liberty was the ruling passion of these Germans; the enjoyment of it, their best treasure; the word that expressed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Those qualities that separate us are often ridiculed by others or criticized by teachers. Because of these judgments, we might see our… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind… — Uta Hagen 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
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
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
Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Taoism ... is the Religion of the Tao, a term meaning Path or Way, but denoting in this peculiar case the way,… — Jan Jakob Maria de Groot Copy Share Image
Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
While I did a lot of research, I ended up feeling that the best way to write about grief was to describe… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Faith-healing is peculiar enough at the best of times, but applying it to football merits a special league of barking. Why would… — Mark Steel Copy Share Image
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