Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions sown are directly valid for all mankind
To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life. . . organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.
The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.
We may all be a peculiar lot. . . often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work. . . but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.
I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature in the nineteenth century comes close - so exclusively produced by and closely identified with a tiny but powerful ruling elite, the upper-caste, Anglophone upper middle class, and dependent for so long on book buyers and readers elsewhere.
After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
Eternal life is not a peculiar feeling inside! It is not your ultimate destination, to which you will go when you are dead. If you are born again, eternal life is that quality of life that you possess right now.
A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
There are things within the culture that absolutely enrage me, and for me it is sacred rage. But it's not just peculiar to Mormonism - it's any patriarchy that I think stops, thwarts, or denies our creativity.
Oh, this beast? It's. . . perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'. " "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.
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.
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.