Peculiar Quotes

555 Peculiar quotes by 448 unique authors

If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is… — Paul Johnson
I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound. — Frank Welker
Work place romances always seem to get very confused and peculiar, in my experience. — Sean Pertwee
Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a… — Brian Eno
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals,… — Huston Smith
Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of… — Dinaw Mengestu
Adam was the image of God, he was man and woman, and yet neither of them before his Eve, but a masculine virgin in peculiar… — Jakob Bohme
Americans hate their cable companies - for bumbling installers, on-again-off-again transmissions, peculiar channel selections, and indifferent customer service. The only thing cable subscribers hate more… — Virginia Postrel
The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town… — Unknown Author
Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required… — John Montgomery Ward
My work with AIDS patients started right at the beginning of the epidemic, totally unplanned and spontaneous, as all my work had proceeded in the… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom. — Ted Cruz
When a child is born, it is immersed in an atmosphere charged with the stellar vibrations peculiar to that moment, which are stamped upon each… — Max Heindel
When blood is extracted from the human body and coagulates, every particle is of a peculiar form not duplicated by the particles of any other… — Max Heindel
The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in… — James Lovegrove
To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most… — Richard Wilbur
On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial. — Ronald Ross
As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan… — Townsend Harris
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function. — Frederick Pollock
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made… — Lester B. Pearson
For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways… — Georg Simmel
Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition. — Rudolf Hiferding
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be. — David Antin
The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition.… — Daniel Hannan
The idea of being a single woman in Hollywood is a very peculiar thing. — Marsha Mason

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