Quotes About Abnormality

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.

He's one fry short of a Happy Meal.

Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.

What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life—that is what is abnormal.

It's not normal to go into a house and see a pond in the middle of the living room full of baby sharks. It's not normal to go to someone's garage and see a private plane.

Let's face it: quaintness is creepy.

I was born tall. I was awkward and gangly. Before that, I was a really chubby elementary school kid. I've always been sort of a physical abnormality.

Peter's anomaly

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization

II y avait en elle un manque d'équilibre entre le sang et les nerfs, une sorte de détraquement du cerveau et du cÅ"ur, qui la faisait vivre en dehors de la vie ordinaire.

I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm.

I definitely do weird things every show.

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

I've always been strange; I've always been slightly to the left, like 'weirdo' to other people, I guess.

I've been a weirdo since I was a kid.

I've always been attracted to weirdos.

Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence, a disease of deficiency suffered by those whose lives and imaginations do not react satisfactorily to normal experience and require an extra thrill

he doesn't have the normal share of miterosis.

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

We investigators often forget to look at things from an extremely paranoid point of view. If your theory of what someone would normally do isn't helping you catch the person, you have to assume they were doing something abnormal.

She is so beautiful she is unnatural; her beauty is an abnormality, a deformity, for none of her features exhibit any of those touching imperfections that reconcile us to the imperfection of the human condition.

The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.

the odds are good, but the goods are odd

Exponential creativity demands abnormality. And requires us to deviate from ordinary company.