Top Peculiar Quotes Collection

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Image of Eileen Wilks
Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.
- Eileen Wilks
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Image of Claire Messud
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.
- Claire Messud
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Image of Katherine Neville
All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.
- Katherine Neville
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Image of Thomas Ligotti
Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.
- Thomas Ligotti
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Image of David Pilbeam
Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.
- David Pilbeam
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Image of Ada Lovelace
But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value; just as logic has its own peculiar truth and value, independently of the subjects to which we may apply its reasonings and processes.
- Ada Lovelace
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Image of August Bier
Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves.
- August Bier
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Image of Homer Hulbert
There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation.
- Homer Hulbert
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Image of Henry Lindlahr
Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply.
- Henry Lindlahr
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Image of Brad Leithauser
If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'
- Brad Leithauser
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Image of Anna Journey
Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.
- Anna Journey
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Image of John Stuart Mill
A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
- John Stuart Mill
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Image of Jeanette Winterson
Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.
- Jeanette Winterson
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Image of John Ruskin
Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.
- John Ruskin
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Image of Amanda Peet
Mark and jay Duplass really like to improvise. Even if we beg them to go back to the script, they invariably ask us to go "off the rails," as they like to call it. It's just the way they work. You get a full written script. And it's really, really, really good, so that's why it's kind of peculiar that they always want you to improvise, because if I wrote something that good, I would want everyone to stick to the dialogue that was written.
- Amanda Peet
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Image of Will Rogers
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.
- Will Rogers
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Image of Alexander Pope
The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?
- Alexander Pope
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Image of Gertrude Stein
I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.
- Gertrude Stein
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Image of Luc de Clapiers
Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
- Luc de Clapiers
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Image of Mason Cooley
Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of Evan Esar
The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible.
- Evan Esar
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of David Gerrold
Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.
- David Gerrold
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of P. D. James
Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.
- P. D. James
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Image of Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
- Sue Monk Kidd
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Image of Henri Matisse
The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.
- Henri Matisse
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Image of Djuna Barnes
One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
- Djuna Barnes
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