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Quotes About Peculiar

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
~ Robert Owen
I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.
~ Keira Knightley
The 'Tim And Eric' experience was very strange.
~ Fred Willard
If I seemed strange, and conscious of myself, what was that to her? We were all strange, there.
~ Sarah Waters
I think everybody has experiences from time to time they can't explain. They are peculiarities. Usually we just dismiss them because they are uncomfortable to think about.
~ Stephen King
In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Advice is a peculiar commodity. Those who have the capacity to give good advice generally have too much sense to waste their time trying to get rid of it.
~ William H. McMaster
Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.
~ Milan Kundera
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
~ Mark Twain
If there is one thing in the world that will make a man peculiarly and insufferably self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day it sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.
~ Mark Twain
This, together with his hanging his coat on the floor on one side of a chair, and his vest on the floor on the other side, and piling his pants on the floor just in front of the same chair, and then contemplating the general result with superstitious awe, and finally pronouncing it "too many for him" and going to bed with his boots on, led us to fear that something he had eaten had not agreed with him.
~ Mark Twain
I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly strong and stiff." "Peculiar—that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an English paper
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
All of this was odd, to say the least.
~ Atul Gawande
These traits strike her as unusual
~ Atul Gawande
It was so extraordinarily out of the ordinary.
~ Augusten Burroughs
the other hand neither was he a man, nor any sapient proteinoid of the glutinous-albuminous variety. The head was round and plump, with red cheeks, but for eyes it had two penny whistles, and for ears it had thuribles, which gave off a thick cloud of incense. He was dressed
~ Stanis?aw Lem
I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists, neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
~ Stanley Kubrick
Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.
~ Stephen Crane
Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.
~ Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Life appears to have one foot in the classical world of everyday objects and the other planted in the strange and peculiar depths of the quantum world. Life, we will argue, lives on the quantum edge.
~ Johnjoe McFadden
We had thought it a little odd, but what did we know? Lou has been peculiar since birth, after all. Mum
~ Jojo Moyes
My nerves were telling me this guy was half a keg short of a six-pack.
~ Jonathan Maberry