124 Peculiar Quotes for You to Enjoy

There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay. Ben Goldacre

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Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised. Brian Eno

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Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. Charles Kennedy

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I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about. Charles McCarry

There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of reality that is. I think partly it's based on some idea that comics are what everybody wants to read - and I don't think that's the case. Chris Ware

I enjoy doing complicated or peculiar people. Christopher Lloyd

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What sets 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' apart is Riggs's use of 'found' photographs as a spark of inspiration for the narrative. 'Found' describes art created from common objects that are not normally considered art. Claire Cameron

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

Art People Emotion Provoked Sensitive Agree Works Peculiar

John Goodman is like the Jackie Chan of acting. Any prop that you put in front of him, he's going to take advantage of it in some peculiar way. Dan Trachtenberg

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

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

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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. Dennis Ritchie

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Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone. Dinaw Mengestu

There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world. Eddie Rickenbacker

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You don't have to be peculiar to find God. Evelyn Underhill

God You Find Peculiar

Way back in my mid-20s, I started making notes. I would just jot things down: lists of street names, songs, peculiar turns of speech, jokes, whatever. Frank McCourt

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I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball. Fred Frith

Alone Remember Kick France Laughing Some Dressed Costumes Football Ball Up Friends Stand Stand Up Hard Even Playing Peculiar

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

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Love is a peculiar thing. Georg Buchner

Love Love Is Thing Peculiar

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. Georg Simmel

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Starting in the early 1800s, Southerners in the United States began to defend slavery as their 'peculiar institution,' and northerners didn't mind, since the phrase suggested that chattel bondage was quarantined from the rest of the nation: that it was, or soon would be, a relic of its past and would not define its future. Greg Grandin

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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were. Hans Blix

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns. Harriet Ann Jacobs

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