Peculiar Quotes

555 Peculiar quotes by 448 unique authors

The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized. — Rich Hall
Practically everything I did as an experiment while I was working on the book made me feel cold, angry, and decidedly peculiar. Clinical. Because I… — Joan Juliet Buck
To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority… — H. L. Mencken
The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more… — Vladimir Lenin
Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar illogic of Wall… — Peter Lynch
If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth,… — Criss Jami
This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by… — George Gissing
A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes. — Christian Nestell Bovee
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
Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas… — Pierre Trudeau
Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory. — Hans Christian Andersen
It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body.… — Stephen Fry
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
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a… — Stephen Greenblatt
Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very… — Bette Davis
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of… — Terry Eagleton
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. — Brian Eno
Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien?… — Mark Haddon
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. — G. Stanley Hall
I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives. — Anthony Hopkins
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. — David Hume
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. — Jack Kerouac
If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. — Dean Koontz
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. — Christopher Lasch

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