Peculiar Quotes

555 Peculiar quotes by 448 unique authors

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time. — Marshall McLuhan
It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry. — Henry James
In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India… — Tahir Shah
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature… — Immanuel Kant
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers. — Mikhail Botvinnik
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

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