Peculiar Quotes · Page 4

I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on…

— Carl Schurz

Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to…

— Diogenes Laertius

“Have a peculiar passion, audacity and boldness that see farther and further into the outer space.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

— Judy Garland

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

— Brian Eno

All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.

— Alexander Pope

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

Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a…

— Vaclav Havel

There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They…

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves…

— Honore de Balzac

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that…

— George Orwell

He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set…

— Emily Bronte

We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are…

— Vladimir Lenin

Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels…

— Eudora Welty

The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son…

— Henry David Thoreau

One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in…

— Walker Percy

This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar…

— George Gissing

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

I had no idea what effect something blockbustering would have. To me, it was just a job that I was trying to…

— Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from…

— Henry George

There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues…

— Herman Melville

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my…

— Stevie Smith

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

— W. Somerset Maugham

... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be…

— John Ruskin

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

— John Updike

It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.

— Sallie Tisdale

The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.

— Quentin S. Crisp

All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

— Alexander Pope

I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.

— James Randi

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

— Anonymous

There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.

— Alice Thomas Ellis

Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in…

— Samuel Johnson

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?

— Nicholson Baker

For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to…

— Annie Dillard

Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.

— Dan Sperber