Quotes About Peculiar

We're all strange in our own strange way.

Or maybe they're weird. Maybe dinosaurs are weird.

He's a good old sort. If only he weren't plumb crazy!

My sister is a very peculiar lady. When we were young, I wasn't allowed to talk to her friends. Now I'm not allowed to talk to her children, nor are they permitted to see me. This is the nature of the lady. Doesn't bother me at all.

Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.

Somebody sent me their tooth, which I now wear as an earring. It's a molar, I think. I love it when people send me body parts.

We tend to love things that are left of center anyway.

This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel.

Norfolk specializes in odd pronunciations. Hautbois is hobbiss, Wymondham is windum, Costessey is cozzy, Postwick is pozzik. People often ask why that is. I'm not sure, but I think it is just something that happens when you sleep with close relatives.

They were most peculiar. And they eat pizza pie." "For breakfast?" "No, for lunch and dinner. But it's not a pie at all, it's a kind of bread with tomato sauce and cheese on it." "Sounds dreadful.

I thought I had seen a face like Sun Pie's before but couldn't remember just where. He had an unusual way of talking…slow but with slam bang action words.

My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoophagous (life-eating) maniac; what he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can, and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way. ..

It is strange that as yet I have not seen the Count eat or drink. He must be a very peculiar man!

the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.

She did not rise at their entrance, nor make any sign that she had noticed them at all. But perhaps she did not hear them. For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.

is expected to have certain peculiarities, but the most peculiar feature of Mr Norrell's house was, without a doubt, Childermass. In no other household in London was there any servant like him. One day he might be observed removing a dirty cup and wiping crumbs from a table like a common footman. The next day

This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what to make of the sudden slippiness, The blind, white, awful, inaccessible slant. There's no getting up it by the words you know. No getting up by elephant or wheel or shoe. We have only come to look. You are too new To want the world in a glass hat.

I met the oddest little fellow today, Alan of Trebond.

Cyrion, one has to suppose, is one who naturally attracts bizarre, uncanny events, as some persons attract misfortune.

A rare bird on earth, comparable to a black swan.

Er war so anders als alle anderen und dachte Gedanken, die sonst keiner dachte.

Mad things could be quite normal, so long as you were doing them yourself. Watching someone else doing them, you wrinkled your nose, turned around quickly, and walked away.

These sesame noodles are weird.

Peculiar behavior only invited unwarranted suspicion.