Peculiar Quotes

Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its own story, its own peculiar way of getting written.

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.

It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.

In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.

Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With us, religion is the only ground along which we can move.

I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?

There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.

Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.

Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.

Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.

Happy Ending I did with Paul Winfield. There was a play- within- the- play and I was his mother - which is a peculiar bit of casting, to say the least.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.

When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance.

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.

It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.

Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.

Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.

Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and more straightforward in its political meanings, continues to sing his own peculiar and alluring song.

You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.

I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.