Quotes About Idiosyncratic

This is the idiosyncratic observation of one medical student wandering around a large institution, sticking his nose into this room or that, talking to some people and watching others and trying to decide what, if anything, it all means.

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

She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means without liberal motions, rarely succeeded in giving an impression of suavity.

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

He's like a half-baked cookie. - Aunt Polly

Then science came along and taught us that we are not the measure of all things, that there are wonders unimagined, that the Universe is not obliged to conform to what we consider comfortable or plausible. We have learned something about the idiosyncratic nature of our common sense. Science has carried human self-consciousness to a higher level. This is surely a rite of passage, a step towards maturity.

Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.

Wright correctly diagnoses the failure of the New Quest (and its current heirs, such as the Jesus Seminar, Crossan and Burton L. Mack)" to fit Jesus' overall life and ministry into sufficiently historical contexts and the broader theological narratives of his day. Wright helpfully observes that the uniquely North American work of the Jesus Seminar members is so idiosyncratic that it is often not even taken seriously in other parts of the world (JVG 35 n. 23).

When you feel that the way you interpret the world is fairly idiosyncratic, you can feel somewhat ostracized and lonely.

Never compare a multiplicative, systemic, and fat-tailed risk to a non-multiplicative, idiosyncratic, and thin-tailed one.

Ev wasn't the crunchiest chip in the bag.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is law unto himself, and a crank as one who having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

Britain's such a twisted, weird little place.

I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.

Look, I promise I'm not psychotic. Eccentric and idiosyncratic, but not psychotic. (Sebastian) I'll bet the prisons are full of men who have told women that. (Channon)

It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.

In this deeply idiosyncratic work dating from 1577

I totally understand I'm an eccentric person; I'm not going to claim to be a normal person.

I'm different," said the Kid. "My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

The quirky flavourings of the idiosyncratic ideologue ultimately drowned in the ketchup of redheaded twins and nipples that go spung.

We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas.

You won't understand me unless you understand that I am an odd ball.

In general, I'm probably seen as an unusual director.

During my study of happiness, I noticed something that surprised me: I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal principles or cite up-to-date studies.