Peculiar Quotes - Page 10

• The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are born of our imaginations, carry much of ourselves in them, and embody whatever dreams we dream of immortality.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dream, Children, Character

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• The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly, in a very peculiar manner, of a very few very rich people. The great mass of society, including those to whom it would be of the greatest benefit, is excluded from it. In the nature of the case private parks can never be used by the mass of the people in any country nor by any considerable number even of the rich, except by the favor of a few, and in dependence on them.

  Frederick Law Olmsted

  Country, Mean, Numbers

  Frederick Law Olmsted (2016). “Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society”, p.426, Library of America

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• It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she had the address of appearing only to attend, but was continually doubling her chains upon her companions; which were so slender in themselves, and so silently fastened, that while the attention was engaged by other objects, they were not easily perceived. Each link grew tighter as it had been longer worn; and when by continual additions they became so heavy as to be felt, they were very frequently too strong to be broken.

  Samuel Johnson

  Strong, Broken, Suffering

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.491

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• I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.

  Emma Donoghue

  Thinking, World, Lacking

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• 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

  Writing, Creative, Tactics

  Source: writerunboxed.com

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• If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.

  Paul Johnson

  Unique, Views, Racism

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• God is gracious to some very peculiar people.

  Wallace Stevens

  People, Gracious

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.505, Univ of California Press

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• Whether in times of war or times of peace the Quaker is under peculiar obligation to assist and to forward movements and forces which make for peace in the world and which bind men together in ties of unity and fellowship.

  Rufus Jones

  War, Men, Ties

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• In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Long, India

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Beyond the Devil's Teeth Paperback”, p.117, Lulu.com

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• It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.

  Henry James

  Country, Travel, Mountain

  Henry James (2016). “The Wings of the Dove, Complete: American Literature”, p.71, 谷月社

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• The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.

  James Madison

  Support, Liberty, Citizens

  James Madison (1865). “Letters and other writings of James Madison”, p.468

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• There is something very peculiar about this form of atheism: It tries to constantly remind us of God while maintaining He does not exist! How can you hate something that is not there? Why would you persistently prove to people the non-existence of a being really not there?

  Gerard Verschuuren

  Hate, People, Evil

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• Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times are not so much the causes of the different success of their labours, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession.

  Humphry Davy

  Mean, Men, Intellectual

  Sir Humphry Davy (1812). “Elements of Chemical Philosophy”, p.54

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• He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Character, Men, Rivers

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• A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky seen through the white clusters of apple blossom in spring. I remember being moonstruck looking at it one morning early on my way to school. It meant something for me; what, I couldn't say. It gave me such an unease at heart, some reaching out towards perfection such as impels men into religion, some sense of the transcendence of things, of the fragility of our hold on life.

  A. L. Rowse

  Morning, Spring, School

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• The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times of suspicion and doubt...No other organized joy has values comparable to the outdoor experience.

  Herbert Hoover

  Uplifting, Spiritual, People

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• And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Loneliness, People, Solitude

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1936-1944, The mirror of relationship”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this means that we find the psychological facts as it were in the constellations. This originally gave rise to the idea that these factors derive from the stars, whereas they are merely in a relation of synchronicity with them. I admit that this is a very curious fact which throws a peculiar light on the structure of the human mind.

  Carl Jung

  Stars, Mean, Light

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, Psychology Press

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• The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Lightning, Enough

  Mark Twain (2017). “Mark Twain’s Comedy Classics: 190+ Stories & Sketches (Illustrated Edition): The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain: A Double Barrelled Detective Story, Those Extraordinary Twins, The Stolen White Elephant, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Sketches New and Old, Mark Twain’s Library of Humor…”, p.1304, e-artnow

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• Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom

  Swami Vivekananda

  Special, Way

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2590, Manonmani Publishers

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• It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Single Mom, Moments, Photograph

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• I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

  Francis Bacon

  Sweaters, Tools, Use

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• Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

  Eileen Wilks

  Violent, Turns, Humans

  Eileen Wilks (2012). “Inhuman”, p.59, Penguin

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• Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing and the trying of the others, there has been this peculiar rapport, comradeship, of us two so alike, so similar, but for science-boy and humanities-girl - the introspection, self examination, biannual deep summarizing conversations, and then the platonic parting.

  Sylvia Plath

  Crush, Girl, Kissing

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• You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Wife, Forgiving, Strange

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.10, Hamilton Books

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