logo

Quotes About Quirk

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.
~ Day Parker
Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.
~ Georgette Heyer
Most sharks can't tolerate freshwater but bull sharks have a quirk of their physiology that enables them to.
~ Jeremy Wade
We're all crazy. What's your specific form of crazy?
~ Sarah Mlynowski
I used to kiss things all the time. I would have to kiss everything, just about everything. The headboard on my bed, the steering wheel in my car. I think it was an OCD thing.
~ Rich Fulcher
I have a weird thing with giraffes, I don't like their neck
~ Eminem
Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.
~ Will Cuppy
At least one memory remained vivid: once or twice each night, ----- would turn over in his sleep, his back to her, and play a long note on the buttocks bassoon. Enjoy that adorable quirk.
~ Shannon Hale
She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.
~ Maureen Johnson
When I woke up I was naked. I have this one oddball idiosyncrasy: Sometimes in my sleep I take off all my clothes.
~ Ethan Hawke
However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
~ J. K. Rowling
You're the only man I know who makes the sign of the cross when confronted with broccoli.
~ Simon R. Green
I gotta ask you...why do you always circle before you lie down? I said. As opposed to what? Johnny Depp asked, astonished by the question. You mean not circle? How would I tamp down the leaves and twigs and get comfortable? What leaves and twigs? I said. This bed is twig-free. Hmm. I see your point, said Johnny Depp, pausing for a second before he resumed circling. But did it occur to you maybe that's because I circle first?
~ Merrill Markoe
One little superstition of mine I hope you will indulge. I never meet with perfect strangers in desolate bastle houses or alarmingly named alleyways at twilight. This trifling quirk I developed shortly after acquiring a large number of enemies.
~ Frances Hardinge
You show me someone who'll eat lima beans without being at gunpoint, I'll show you a pervert!
~ Harlan Ellison
Everybody's got something weird about them," I said.
~ Haruki Murakami
I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.
~ Bill Watterson
Wayne's a little attached to that hat," Waxillium said. "He thinks it's lucky." Wayne: "It is lucky. I ain't never died while wearing that hat." Marasi frowned. "I ... I'm not sure I know how to respond." Wax: "That's a common reaction to Wayne.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Look who's full of himself," MeLaan said from her chair. "He's always full of himself," Wayne said, cracking a walnut. "Mostly on account of him eatin' his own fingernails. I seen him do it.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Letting go of rational thought, he surrendered himself to instinct, to the odd quirk within that made him one with machines. The same quirk that had melded him almost effortlessly with his prosthetic limb and perhaps was the reason he'd lost none of his connection with the Force, even though his arm and hand were made of metal.
~ Karen Miller
I seem to fancy middle-aged men, weirdly.
~ Georgia Toffolo
Idiosyncrasy
~ Thomas Hardy
I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
~ Calvin Trillin