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ireland-and-the-irish language soothing
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. John Millington Synge
ireland-and-the-irish peculiar nineteenth-century
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. John McGahern
ireland-and-the-irish stubborn streaks
I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess. Gregory Peck
ireland-and-the-irish spit turns
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him. George Bernard Shaw
peculiar life-is
One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it. Djuna Barnes
peculiar unusual
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. James Lovegrove
peculiar produces
Our planet has a peculiar wobble - its precession. And that precession produces upheavals in our weather, weather alterations we cycle through every 22,000, 41,000 and 100,000 years. Howard Bloom
peculiar sometimes habit
Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives. David Gerrold
peculiar virtue
FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
peculiar poet work written
I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.' Helen Vendler
peculiar harmony invention
The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it. Henri Matisse
peculiar providence form
Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
peculiar form
Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.