Quotes About Quirk

She turned and looked at him. "Ducks?" she said again. A smile tugged the edge of his mouth. "I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have.

Love is universal, luckily, but also in general I've found that whenever I've been the most specific in my stand-up, revealing some weird neurosis or quirk I'm ashamed of, that's what people relate to the most. Specificity is key!

He is a man who kicks at cats, said Solembum, as if that summed up Tenga's entire character.

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

Each thing had a value and as the value changed, everything else changed also. A broken calabash was worth less than one that held its water, a hook that kept its catfish more prized than one that relinquished its bait. In America the quirk was that people were things.

In America the quirk was that people were things. Best to cut your losses on an old man who won't survive a trip across the ocean.

Every funny story has at least one unusual thing in it.

I notoriously get the hiccups. When I get the hiccups, I get it numerous times in one day.

Gussie is an orange-juice addict. He drinks nothing else.' 'I was not aware of that, sir.' 'I have it from his own lips. Whether from some hereditary taint, or because he promised his mother he wouldn't, or simply because he doesn't like the taste of the stuff, Gussie Fink-Nottle has never in the whole course of his career pushed so much as the simplest gin and tonic over the larynx

What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?

I think all actors have a strange quirk about them. They're different than the usual run of people. They have a way of dramatizing things.

My father said it was a delightfully odd - and dangerously self-destructive - quirk of humans that we were far more interested in pointless trivia then in genuine news stories.

You're impossible, she told him. Of course I am, he answered. It's part of my charm.

However, she wouldn't be the first person to mistrust her nearest and dearest yet confide in the first stranger who comes along: a strange but true quirk of behaviour, whose root is easily traced to the human heart.

Why do washing machines eat socks? Do they taste good? Should I eat socks?

I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.

His eyes, those famously blue eyes, narrow and his lips quirk slightly.

Apparently some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided only that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

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.

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It may, incidentally, be observed that the regularity of a habit is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Crossing the ruins of the garden, Charlie tripped on a cucumber vine and crashed into Margaret, and as soon as he got himself steady again, she shoved him down in a patch of brand-new tomatoes, laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing. "Not to dispute the importance of your family quirk," I told John O'Malley, with a nod toward the two of them, "but sometimes you don't need to be a time traveler to see the future.

I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.