#peculiar

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#been #body #extremely #human #human body

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#character #develops #every #exaggerated #express

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century. ↗

— John McGahern

#almost #century #ireland #nineteenth #nineteenth century

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#extremely #faced #invented #move #peculiar

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#conventionality #death #development #every #gifts

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

#effort #insurrection #john #peculiar #slave

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

#brother #gave #gypsy #had #i

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet. ↗

— Yehudi Menuhin

#half #human #peculiarly #phenomenon #poet

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

#cabin #children #cold #comes #dawns

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#bohemian #certain #elements #fault #found