Idiosyncratic Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real… — Diane Ackerman
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path… — Jane Smiley
We still make love to organs and not people; that so far from realising that people are never more idiosyncratic, never more totally there when… — Germaine Greer
Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice… — Joyce Carol Oates
I think connecting natural elements and musicology is probably pretty idiosyncratic of me, so it is hard to imagine anyone else going down that route. — Bjork
You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it. — Noah Baumbach
The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets, some… — Paul Di Filippo
Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent, so each distinct… — Paul Di Filippo
Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as… — Anthony Storr
My titillations have no foot-notes And their memorials are the phrases Of idiosyncratic music. — Wallace Stevens

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