Peculiar Quotes

555 Peculiar quotes by 448 unique authors

If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think… — Wim Wenders
My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of… — Anna Kavan
POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines. — Ambrose Bierce
The leading and characteristic features of the morbid state to which I would direct your attention are, anaemia, general languor and debility, remarkable feebleness of… — Thomas Addison
One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to… — Soren Kierkegaard
It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many. — Edward Coke
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself… — Henry James
A thing that has always baffled me about women is that they will saturate themselves with a pint of perfume, a pound of sachet powder,… — Groucho Marx
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things. — G. Gordon Liddy
SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body… — Ambrose Bierce
The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect. — Ian Hislop
Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the… — James Payn
He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or… — Dean Koontz
Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own… — Eric Hoffer
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to… — James Dickey
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew… — Ambrose Bierce
The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might… — Thomas Merton
At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Wherefore no name can be found for a new fossil [element] which indicates its peculiar and characteristic properties (in which position I find myself at… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. — Josiah Strong
I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My… — Laurence Sterne
Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life?… — Percival Lowell

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