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
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: hail to… — Jessica Powers Copy Share Image
Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and worldly honours to look to, our profession would not be one to be desired.… — Joseph Lister Copy Share Image
You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood,… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have. — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
I ask of each Mason, of each member, of each brother, that he shall remember ever that there is upon him a… — Theodore Roosevelt 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
Self-Made Men are those who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, or friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The peculiar fascination which the speeding train has for us comes from the evident progress it is making toward its definite goal… — Roderick E. Stevens Copy Share Image
The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
But my vote for Venus's most peculiar feature is the presence of craters that are all relatively young and uniformly distributed over… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
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