Peculiar Quotes

555 Peculiar quotes by 448 unique authors

Gathering is peculiar, because you see nothing but what you're looking for. If you're picking raspberries, you see only what's red, and if you're looking… — Tove Jansson
While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way. — Cassandra Clare
The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can… — Elliot Perlman
We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to have a ball… — Vincent Price
His eyes are peculiar. There is nothing in them, like an eclair without the cream filling. It's wrong, lack of cream. — Gail Carriger
He gave her his phone number, in a peculiar reversal of dating procedure. She might have considered kissing him, even after the horrible first date,… — Steve Martin
…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others.… — Yukio Mishima
Izzy," said Jace, as they neared the pond, and she jumped up and spun around. Her smile was dazzling. "Jace!" She flew at him and… — Cassandra Clare
For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on… — Susanna Clarke
It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film… — Sebastian Barry
I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds, gates, guards, all… — Helene Hanff
As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across premieval swamps… — P.G. Wodehouse
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the… — Joseph Campbell
The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen… — Aristotle
It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the… — Vincent Van Gogh
What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you… — Dorothy L. Sayers
To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two… — Beryl Markham
When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull… — Ayn Rand
Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the… — Charles Dickens
I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of… — Malorie Blackman
Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing. — Milan Kundera
This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work… — Thomas Ligotti
He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles… — Emily Bronte
We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The… — Jim Thompson
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

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