My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.
I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his orders. "The smile is very well," said he, catching instantly the passing expression; "but speak too. " "I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders.
I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.
A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.
No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock, yet each has its own peculiar modes both of imitating nature and of deviating from it. . . The deviation, more especially, will not bear transplantation to another soil.
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect is beauty, what in a single object resolves our complex feelings of propriety.
The doctor brushed past her and gestured at the holographic image that jutted from the netscreen. "Let me tell you what is peculiar about it" "I'd say 36. 28 percent of it is pretty peculiar
The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.
Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.
We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.
A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.
North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.
We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.