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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

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

Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.. — Dan Sperber

Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves. — John N. Gray

I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to. — Harper Lee

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

Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace
To spin, to weep, and cully human race. — Alexander Pope

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

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. — Dean Koontz

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

Something peculiar is happening to my head. I remember that my father was Barnaby, but I had another named Balaton. Unless that's a lake in Albania. — Stanislaw Lem

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

It is all odd at first, and then it becomes normal - not because
it is normal, but because repetition uns the peculiar. — John Green

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

Which I wish to remark
And my language is plain,
That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar. — Bret Harte

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 understand well the peculiar guilt of tragedy's survivors. — Kate Morton

I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box. — Tom Mison

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

For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up. — Lauren Bacall

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

Mother Nature is a peculiar entity. On the one hand, she gives us everything that we need to live. On the other hand, she keeps trying to kill us. — S.J. Lewis

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 a side effect of modern warfare, we had the peculiar privilege of watching the destruction of our country on television. — Sara Novic

Be as creative in your tactics as you are in your writing. Find what gets your engine going, no matter how peculiar it may seem to others. — Ralph Keyes

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

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it. — Djuna Barnes

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

It's very peculiar, the situations life presents one with, Father Geoff reflected. — Larry McMurtry

What is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully. — George Orwell

Jeffrey to Felicia - Given your peculiar fashions over the past four years, I'm afraid you've caused people to believe you're a little insane. — Jen Turano

The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are? — Alexander Pope

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

Life has a peculiar habit
once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives. — David Gerrold

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

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

Actors are not always the best judges. We have a peculiar idea of what we think we are, and sometimes it's best left to others to decide what we play. — John Hurt

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

Work place romances always seem to get very confused and peculiar, in my experience. — Sean Pertwee

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

A peculiar feeling passed over me
or, rather, through me, as if I were an umbrella remembering what it felt like to pop open in the rain. — Alan Bradley

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

My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind. — Anna Kavan

Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves. — August Bier

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

I'd always known I was strange. I never dreamed I was peculiar. — Ransom Riggs

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal. — Louise Brown

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

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

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate and rot. — Alexander Pope