Quotes About Peculiar

I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that.

I'm used to people thinking I'm nuts. And you know what? I kind of love it.

Qué extraños lectores son ustedes, qué extraño país es este.

One should always be a little improbable.

The gifts of the Almighty are weighed and parceled out in a scale peculiar to himself. It's no fair accountin and I dont doubt but what he'd be the first to admit it and you put the query to him boldface.

The gifts of the Almighty are weighed and parceled out in a scale peculiar to himself.

I jumped for it and lit in a snowbank and what I'm goin to tell you you'll think peculiar but it's the god's truth. That was in nineteen and thirty one and if I live to be a hunnerd year old I dont think I'll ever see anything as pretty as that train on fire goin up that mountain and around the bend and them flames lightin up the snow and the trees and the night.

Well, one thing's for sure, they're very strange names, and that's putting it mildly.

America means above all toleration, catholicity, welcome, freedom--a concern for Europe, for Asia, for Africa, along with its concern for America. It is something quite peculiar, hardly to be stated--evades you as the air--yet is a fact everywhere preciously present.

You know what it's like, finding eight middle-aged guys having tantric sex with ostriches?

I'm different," said the Kid. "My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

It's a rum state of affairs when you feel like punching a jar of mayonnaise in the face.

On his good days he was eerie. He could make the rest of the human race feel obsolete. —Mrs. Roberta P. Edge

Era um rio podre, contudo eu ainda via alguma graça ali onde ele fazia a curva, no modo peculiar daquela curva, penso que a curva é o gesto de um rio. E assim o reconheci, como às vezes se reconhece num homem velho o trejeito infantil, mais lento apenas.

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.

Hello, freaky peoples!

Terrible accidents, I have found, are often odd.

It is never seven that you count to, before you do something. It is never at the count of two. It is always three, and it is strange.

Pero las leyes son un poco raras. Por ejemplo, un país de Asia tiene una ley que obliga a que todas las bicicletas tengan las ruedas del mismo tamaño. Una isla tiene una ley que prohíbe que nadie recoja la fruta. Y una ciudad no demasiado alejada de donde vivimos tiene una ley que me prohíbe acercarme a menos de ocho kilómetros de sus límites.

tall and skinny, with arms and legs sticking out at odd angles, as if [they] were made of drinking straws instead of flesh and bone.

The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more varied than anyone could have expected.

What strange creatures brothers are!

You're probably gonna find this hard to believe, but I was sort of weird when I was a kid. Salvatore Sally Sweet