Peculiar Quotes

Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in such a way that they noticed something peculiar - and they had the ability to investigate it.

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

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

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

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.

To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

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

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.

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

I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.

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.

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

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

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

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.

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.

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness.

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.