#peculiar

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

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

— Clive Bell

#art #emotion #peculiar #people #provoked

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#betrayed #fidelity #peculiar #those #virtue

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die. ↗

— Judy Garland

#die #died #haven #i #i think

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#chastity #most #peculiar #perhaps #sexual

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#father #life-long #line #long #long story

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. ↗

— Philip Guston

#i #kind #like #miracle #need

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

— G. Stanley Hall

#most #muscles #organs #peculiar #sense

The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#age #around #book #condition #each

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

— David Hume

#brain #call #little #peculiar #privilege