#peculiar

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#love #narration #peculiar #poetry #love

To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was “system,” and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was “industry”, indecision when right was “caution”, and blind stubbornness when wrong, “determination. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#petty #love

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

#most #muscles #organs #peculiar #sense

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. ↗

— David Hume

#brain #call #little #peculiar #privilege

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#been #beings #believe #believing #century

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#anomaly #apparent #corps #existence #interest

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#chair #felt #haven #living #living room

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#characters #difficult #even #his #more

We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is. ↗

— Happy Chandler

#how #matter #much #peculiar #people

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