Quotes of Peculiar - somelinesforyou

“ I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again — as I always am when I write. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes! ”

- Bette Midler

“ Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange and unnatural. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds. ”

- President Bill Clinton

“ Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little. ”

- Nora Roberts

“ If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever. ”

- George Berkeley

“ It sounds odd coming from me, but I realize what I say and how I look has a great impact. ”

- Ayumi Hamasaki

“ It is not uncommon for contracts like this to run later than expected. We're just not at that stage yet to proceed. ”

- Brendan Gill

“ Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure, For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More. ”

- Samuel Lover

“ It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. ”

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

“ All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. ”

- robert owen

“ Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds. ”

- William Petersen

“ I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful! ”

- Paul Taylor

“ Where's your will to be weird? ”

- Jim Morrison

“ Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different! ”

- Paul Hogan

“ Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you? ”

- David Schwimmer

“ It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going. ”

- Gustav Mahler

“ As it stands, the situation is both strange and unusual in that the Indian authorities know more about this important proposal than we in Congress. ”

- Henry Hyde

“ The only reason you hate your birthday is because people give you odd gifts, scary cards with weird messages in them, and because you're getting older. Anyway, Happy Birthday! ”

- Unknown

“ The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies. ”

- David Cronenberg

“ You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar. ”

- George Carlin

“ There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. ”

- Viktor E. Frankl

“ All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive. ”

- Yann Martel

“ Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace. ”

- John Dryden

“ In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm. ”

- Isaac Rosenfeld

“ God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry. ”

- William Wilberforce

“ If Jerry Brown is the answer, it must be a very peculiar question. ”

- Sen Lloyd Bentsen

“ All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar. ”

- Grace Paley

“ The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith? ”

- Charles Darwin
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