The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
The degree to which you’re peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?
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.
For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I’m not wearing make-up.
All anyone needs to enjoy the state legislature is a strong stomach and a complete insensitivity to the needs of the people. As long as you don’t think about what that peculiar body should be doing and what it actually is doing to the quality of life in Texas, then it’s all marvelous fun.
If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his descendants.
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.
I’m very peculiar looking.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don’t necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.
The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
Like me as a teen – and like many teenagers now – my characters are at a peculiar crossroads in their lives. They desperately seek freedom. But at the same time, they are constantly thwarted.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound.
There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others’ ideas about what is okay.
The end of ‘Hollow City’ left the peculiar children in a very precarious spot, and that’s just where ‘Library of Souls’ begins.
Work place romances always seem to get very confused and peculiar, in my experience.
I live and love in God’s peculiar light.
At the age of seven, I wanted a doll with blonde hair and blue eyes like other girls in my class. But my father gave me a black doll and said ‘black is beautiful.’ Telling this to a seven-year-old was quite peculiar, but these were the values we inherited from him.
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.
I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.
Brits have a peculiar sense of humour. I love it.
Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.
Hollywood is a peculiar beast – people in Hollywood are nuts.
I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she’s living with – first with a husband for 13 years and now with a new partner.
Don’t name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.
Actors are not always the best judges. We have a peculiar idea of what we think we are, and sometimes it’s best left to others to decide what we play.
I’m interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.
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.
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein… scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
I think I have got a peculiar voice really, it neither one thing nor the other. It’s not a contralto and it’s not a mezzo soprano; it’s a nothing voice really.
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer’s adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
