Quotes of: Peculiar Keyword

Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.

John Nicholas Gray

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 true of all men.

Richard Wilbur

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.

Anton Seidl

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

Helen Vendler

While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way.

Clockwork Angel

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

Christopher Lasch

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

Anne of Avonlea

Maybe it was only goblin women who were restless and wanted to see the world. She didn't know.

The Peculiars

Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.

The Red Badge of Courage

Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.

Paul Johnson

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.

Robert Creeley

I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness.

Laurie Graham

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?

Nicholson Baker

Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.

Christopher Heyerdahl

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.

Ian Hislop

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

Georges Seurat

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

John Locke

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

Barbara Amiel

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

John McGahern

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

Robert Plant

His eyes are peculiar. There is nothing in them, like an eclair without the cream filling. It's wrong, lack of cream.

Blameless