My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We who go a-fishing are a peculiar people. Like other men and women in many respects, we are like one another, and… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Always bear in mind that boys are naturally wiser than you. Regard them as intellectual beings, who have access to certain sources… — John Farrar Copy Share Image
If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.' — Brad Leithauser Copy Share Image
There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know. — James Randi Copy Share Image
I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I'm writing out of desperation. I felt compelled to write to make sense of it to myself - so I don't end… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This is sometimes attributed to… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
“My external sensations are no less private to myself than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part.… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
