Peculiar Quotes

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember.

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

Everything is new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its own peculiar sweetness.

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.

Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our clothes, food and adornments.

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.

No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar.

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.

I think there's no harm, sometimes, to feel on the edge of things. If you're on the margins you can see a bigger picture. And I actually quite like standing at a peculiar angle to the universe.

There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.

The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which we know at once so much and yet understand so little.

It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility.

Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply.

Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

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.

Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.

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 called our life.

I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box.

The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.

What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'