Own Peculiar Quotes

24 Own Peculiar quotes by 19 unique authors

Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its own story, its… — Unknown Author
Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and more straightforward in its political… — Unknown Author
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace. — John Dryden
I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar problems and specific… — Hans Richter
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur;… — Orison Swett Marden
Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With us, religion is… — Swami Vivekananda
As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for… — Miguel Serrano
Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only… — Giuseppe Mazzini
A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse. — John Stuart Mill
Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell. — Colum McCann
Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock,… — Joshua Reynolds
It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar… — Bernard of Clairvaux
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. — Christopher Lasch
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions… — John Locke
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. — Orison Swett Marden
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to… — Vikram Seth
The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the… — Terry Pratchett
But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the… — Rohinton Mistry
Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished… — Eudora Welty
Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain. — Rohinton Mistry
In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak… — Terry Pratchett
Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those… — Jasper Fforde

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19 authors contributed a total of 24 Own Peculiar Quotes as follows: