I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat… — Nancy Spain Copy Share Image
There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. — Christian Nestell Bovee 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
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory. — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
It's like being called up in the draft. The peculiar joy of hemorrhaging without bleeding starts when the evil little red light… — Jack Gould 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
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
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
Her smile was peculiar - it made her nose wrinkle, not as though she smelled something unpleasant, but more that she was… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
I'm less confident now than I've ever been. In this peculiar craft, confidence is something you spend a lifetime losing. I used… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks… — Galway Kinnell 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
Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited… — Mark Twain 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
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply. — Henry Lindlahr Copy Share Image
A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance. — Colin McEnroe Copy Share Image
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way. — Cassandra Clare 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
Advice is a peculiar commodity. Those who have the capacity to give good advice generally have too much sense to waste their… — William H. McMaster Copy Share Image
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view. — Stewart O'Nan 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
Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
