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The transnational availability of literary themes related to Nazism is a peculiar sign of cultural globalization. After
— Hector Hoyos
The heart is so peculiar. How light and how heavy it can feel at the same time.
How light. — Gabrielle Zevin
How light. — Gabrielle Zevin
In the Old Peculiar language, the word ymbryne (pronounced imm-brinn) means "revolution" or "circuit.
— Ransom Riggs
Let the mind contemplate, let the pen scribble, the oeuvre would be eccentric, peculiar to a reader's eye.
— Shilpa Sandesh
Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.
— John N. Gray
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
— Flannery O'Connor
The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible.
— Evan Esar
It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.
— Marshall McLuhan
Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.
— Ambrose Bierce
That's the peculiar thing about nature," explained Mr. F., "it guards it's rarest treasures with greatest care.
— William Pene Du Bois
It was peculiar to be standing so close to him. He's just a man, but still, what a thing to be Neil Armstrong!
— George Meyer
It's peculiar what you remember when you're not trying.
— Chuck Klosterman
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
— William James
Each is deceived by the sense of finality peculiar to the stage of development at which he stands.
— C. G. Jung
She had set it on the Internet, its own peculiar echo chamber.
— Sherry Turkle
Royalty mostly seem like members of some anachronistic faith, like the Amish, peculiar in gilded buggies.
— Stacey D'Erasmo
It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map.
— J.K. Rowling
Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?
— Ransom Riggs
I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration, and his peculiar lack of need for inspiration.
— Andre Agassi
All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.
— Katherine Neville
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
— G. Gordon Liddy
I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.
— Gertrude Stein
We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.
— James E. Faust
Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.
— Honore De Balzac
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
— John Dryden
Germans found "American" (by which they often meant Irish) bars and their drinking customs both peculiar and unhealthy.
— Donna R. Gabaccia
Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
— Nicholson Baker
For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
— E. O. Wilson
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
— Samuel Smiles
As we see, he had a strange and peculiar way of judging things. I suspect that he acquired it from the Gospel.
— Victor Hugo
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
— Michelangelo
Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.
— George MacDonald
Changed way of speaking or using a different vocabulary, peculiar statements, extreme reactions to praise, blame and criticism.
— Anthony Wilkenson
What is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.
— George Orwell
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
— Brian Eno
A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance.
— Colin McEnroe
We are living through an age of peculiar obsessions.
— Jeremy Maddux
It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.
— Sallie Tisdale
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein ... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
— Frederick Pollock
But in all honesty, I do not find it so peculiar a notion, that a Welshman should rule Wales.
— Sharon Kay Penman
Regardless of how old you are, who you were, now you are a peculiar people, specially called
— Sunday Adelaja
I turn to contemporary fiction seeking a shared awareness with the writer of the cultural moment we both occupy, its peculiar challenges.
— Jennifer Egan
Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.
— Agatha Christie
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.
— James Madison
I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment.
— Ransom Riggs
When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.
— James Rosenquist
Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply.
— Henry Lindlahr
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
— Remy De Gourmont
I love being peculiar, Jacob- It's the very core of who i am. But there are days i wish i could turn it off.
— Ransom Riggs
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.
— John James Audubon
Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.
— Freya Stark
In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.
— Shirley Bassey
We're peculiar. Aren't you?
— Ransom Riggs
A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
— Rowan Atkinson
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
— Georges Seurat
But destiny is a very peculiar thing, with a complex timing that is impossible to comprehend.
— Diana Lanham
Once you start parsing a face, it's a peculiar item: squishy, pointy, with lots of air vents and wet spots.
— Susanna Kaysen
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work.
— George Mikes
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.
— Swami Vivekananda
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.
— William Wilberforce
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
— Thorstein Veblen
My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.
— Amanda McKittrick Ros
The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.
— Shane Claiborne
Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.
— Michael Medved
A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.
— Thomas Harris
Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.
— Milan Kundera
His eyes are peculiar. There is nothing in them, like an eclair without the cream filling. It's wrong, lack of cream.
— Gail Carriger
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
— Martin Buber
All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.
— John Ruskin