Quotes About Peculiar

He looks like a man who has nits and worms at the same time.

My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.

I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box.

All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?

brace yourself for feline taxidermy, disco balls, crystal chandeliers, and other oddities of decor.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch." ? Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

She could easily make matters more bizarre than embarrassing.

That there should be so wide a difference between us Americans and these English, from whom we were divided, so to say, but the other day, is one of the most peculiar physiological phenomena that the history of the world will have afforded. As

The peculiar circumstances arising out of the fall of the Syracusan tyranny seem to have produced the first practitioners of the art of rhetorical

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

Las cosas mas raras y singulares no se presentan con mucha frecuencia unidas a los crimines grandes, sino a los pequeños.

I think it cannot be too firmly emphasized that in the writing of any kind of fiction no scene and no character can be allowed to wander off by itself; there must be some furthering of the story in every sentence, and even the most fleeting background characters must partake of the story in some way; they must be characters peculiar to this story and no other.

At one point in the course of this discussion, the idea took possession of us that culture was a peculiar process passing over human life and we are still under the influence of this idea.

Not one of them had found life quite the amusing and triumphant adventure he had expected; and they came back wistfully, longing to recapture their credulous golden days. They believed (for a week) that their classmates were peculiarly set apart from the crooked and exasperating race of men as a whole.

A large number merely strange

We're just... friends. No, friends doesn't feel right. Not colleagues either. Not really acquaintances... OK. Let's face it. It's weird.

It's still strange.

Being normal?1 I have never had this experience.

if you don't have any weird moments, you're weird