Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar". — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. — G. Stanley Hall 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
Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain,… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
“By stepping outside your comfort zone to do something peculiar, you confirm that you can do more than you've done. Move out!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
His eyes are peculiar. There is nothing in them, like an eclair without the cream filling. It's wrong, lack of cream. — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs... After a while everything you do is just wonderful... then you slide… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
“Because we weren’t like other people. We were peculiar.” “Peculiar how?” “Oh, all sorts of ways,” he said. “There was a girl… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens,… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer… — Leonard Bloomfield Copy Share Image
Both ground- rents and the ordinary rent of land are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without… — Adam Smith 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
Light enhances but its shadow deletes, thus giving the picture its depth, its third dimension and its subtractive properties... I believe that… — Augusto De Luca 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
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
