Peculiar Quotes

555 Peculiar quotes by 448 unique authors

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. — Flannery O'Connor
In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt… — Susan Orlean
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar. — Grace Paley
Hollywood is a peculiar beast - people in Hollywood are nuts. — James Patterson
I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile. — Robert Plant
There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion. — Feisal Abdul Rauf
I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama… — Paul Ryan
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera:… — Will Self
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
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of… — Adam Smith
I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself… — Billy Sunday
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. — John Updike
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. — Thorstein Veblen
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness… — A. N. Wilson
For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization. — E. O. Wilson
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and… — Tom Wolfe
[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians… — Bob Dylan
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation;… — John Stuart Mill
What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river. — William Shakespeare

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