I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar,… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state… — Vernon Lee 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
The leading and characteristic features of the morbid state to which I would direct your attention are, anaemia, general languor and debility,… — Thomas Addison Copy Share Image
Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow.… — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur Copy Share Image
I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and… — Alice Walker 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
For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain,… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinates from office; it will make him,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have always had the feeling that organic chemistry is a very peculiar science, that organic chemists are unlike other men, and… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized. — Rich Hall Copy Share Image
No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues. — Samuel West Copy Share Image
If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
