Quotes of: Peculiar Keyword

The idea of being a single woman in Hollywood is a very peculiar thing.

Marsha Mason

The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.

Ted Cruz

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

E. O. Wilson

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

Brian Eno

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 of allocating roles to men.

Georg Simmel

Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it ta...

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

I love you too, I wanted to say with as much hurtful sarcasm as I could muster, but she hadn't seen me, and I kept quiet. I did love her, of course, but mostly just because loving your mother is mandatory, not because she's someone I think I'd like v...

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

Clive Bell

...and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man?

Paul Simon

What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.

Samuel West

On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial.

Ronald Ross

I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.

Kevin Powers

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

John Updike

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 ambition.

Adam Smith

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

Grace Paley

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

G. Gordon Liddy

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

George Haven Putnam

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

Stewart O'Nan

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Thorstein Veblen

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Ambrose Bierce

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals