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The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch  (Peculiar Quotes) Adam was the image of God, he was man and woman, and yet neither of them before his Eve, but a masculine virgin in peculiar love, full of chastity and purity.  (Peculiar Quotes) Some hours after eating this dish [lièvre à la royale, which contains 20 cloves of garlic and twice that quantity of shallots], there is a peculiar sensation of liberation in the head. and it is sensation of smell.  (Peculiar Quotes) There’s something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.  (Peculiar Quotes) We are all equal not because we partake in some peculiar nature or because we share in the same credo of unreasoned beliefs, but because we take it that no thinking being is incapable of seeing reason.  (Peculiar Quotes) I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were writing about, which I found a very peculiar thing ‘cos all our lives are equally real, and it’s just a matter of depicting them and talking about them.  (Peculiar Quotes) The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom  (Peculiar Quotes) SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar tumble-bug. It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.  (Peculiar Quotes) Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our clothes, food and adornments.  (Peculiar Quotes) If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.  (Peculiar Quotes) The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature.  (Peculiar Quotes) My address book of dealers and private collectors, smugglers and fixers, agents, runners and the peculiar assortment of art hangers-on was longer than anyone else’s in the field.  (Peculiar Quotes) When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it’s a good time to start painting.  (Peculiar Quotes) 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.  (Peculiar Quotes) I think the only remotely interesting drug was acid. I had a slightly peculiar attitude towards it I think. Just about everything about hippydom I hated.  (Peculiar Quotes) The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.  (Peculiar Quotes) Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features.  (Peculiar Quotes) Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer’s evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.  (Peculiar Quotes) 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.  (Peculiar Quotes) It’s like being called up in the draft. The peculiar joy of hemorrhaging without bleeding starts when the evil little red light glows on the monstrous camera.  (Peculiar Quotes) No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.  (Peculiar Quotes) The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.  (Peculiar Quotes) The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.  (Peculiar Quotes) Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised.  (Peculiar Quotes) There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.  (Peculiar Quotes) It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.  (Peculiar Quotes) The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.  (Peculiar Quotes) Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.  (Peculiar Quotes) I think there’s no harm, sometimes, to feel on the edge of things. If you’re on the margins you can see a bigger picture. And I actually quite like standing at a peculiar angle to the universe.  (Peculiar Quotes) What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshireis full of people who have a peculiar passion for their own business. I would argue passion is more important than brain power.  (Peculiar Quotes)
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