Peculiar Quotes

"What would Golan Do? That way I can ask myself before I do anything. Before I take a dump. How would Dr. Golan want me to take this dump? Should I bank it off the side or go straight down the middle? What would be the most psychologically beneficial dump I could take?"

Ransom Riggs

"God created you not as an ordinary personality, but eminent, peculiar, and with a special assignment"

Sunday Adelaja

"I love my love with a b because she is peculiar."

Gertrude Stein, Narration: Four Lectures by Gertrude Stein

"Normality is much less captivating than the extraordinary."

Erin Forbes, Fire & Ice: The Elementals

"Have a peculiar passion, audacity and boldness that see farther and further into the outer space."

Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

"Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?"

Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

"Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked."

Criss Jami, Healology

"Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities."

Criss Jami, Killosophy

"I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch"

Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

"Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression."

Criss Jami, Healology

"Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way"

Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

"By stepping outside your comfort zone to do something peculiar, you confirm that you can do more than you've done. Move out!"

Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

"When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect."

Michael Bassey Johnson

"These outlanders are peculiar, aren’t they?"Longbow smiled faintly. "They seem to think that we’re the peculiar ones. Their lives are very complicated, but we try our best to keep everything simple. I’m not sure exactly why, but that seems to offend them for some reason."

David Eddings, The Treasured One

"My face is shaped like a face, and my body like a body, but my thoughts are very unusual. Piano from the third floor. Daisies on a roof."

R.X. Bird

"The comfort was peculiarly chilling."

Shannon A. Thompson, Seconds Before Sunrise

"When you meet a dark angel don't you ever for one minute believe they are bad because they have faced the worst demons and lived to guide you through yours. It really isn't an easy job they have been asked to do, but then neither was standing on the front line during the war in heaven."

Shannon L. Alder

"I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his orders."The smile is very well," said he, catching instantly the passing expression; "but speak too.""I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders."

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals."

Michael Bassey Johnson

"Early in life we recognize certain talents in ourselves, and we focus on those to the exclusion of others. It's not that nothing else is possible, but that nothing else was nurtured."

Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

"We're not peculiar.""Oh, yes, you are. Don't you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar because they'd never been divorced? Basically because it would have been too much trouble. But you live in a world where not only are your parents not divorced, they appear to love each other"

Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light