Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. — Georges Seurat Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part.… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in such a way that they… — Dwight Schultz 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
Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character… — William James Copy Share Image
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
We live in a society which is heading in one direction, so it's good to have at least a few friends who… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image