Quotes of: Peculiar Keyword

I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment." I'd always known I was strange. I never dreamed I was peculiar.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

...slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

A bitter man needs to place his troubles on the front of his tongue so that they taste sweeter.

Dubious Musings of a Peculiar Man

Honestly, he could be adorable, and at the moment she had the feeling he wasn't even trying.

A Most Peculiar Circumstance

Objectivity is a peculiar demand to make of institutions which, as business corporations, are dedicated first of all to economic survival. It is a peculiar demand to make of institutions which often, by tradition or explicit credo, are political orga...

Discovering The News: A Social History Of American Newspapers

To say that life is nothing but a property of certain peculiar combinations of atoms is like saying that Shakespeare's Hamlet is nothing but a property of a peculiar combination of letters.

A Guide for the Perplexed

That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Right at the flamingo orgy! Left at the multiethnic roof Santas! Straight past the pissing cherubs!

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

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 bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

Vikram Seth

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

Joseph Hume

I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Have they built cities on the moon?" another boy asked hopefully. "We left some garbage and a flag there in the sixties, but thats about it.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

You Sure this is it?" I said. "It looks empty." "Empty? No way, there's loads of shit in there," worm replied

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.

The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman

I say, you look smashing this evening," Zayne strode over to her, took her arm, and began helping her up the walk, "That is a lovely gown, and what is the color of the hair you're currently sporting?

A Most Peculiar Circumstance

..he had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

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 so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual diseas...

Paul Johnson