Quotes About Oddity

You know, a lot of strange things happen in this world.

Aren't we all a bunch of weirdos?

It turned out that strange little girls grow up to be strange young women.

I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils.

He was burdened, poor Strether—it had better be confessed at the outset—with the oddity of a double consciousness. There was detachment in his zeal and curiosity in his indifference.

I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.

Wow, monitor lizards are pretty gnarly creatures. I want to go with the monitor lizard. That's just weird enough to be true. No?

Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things -Bram Stoker, Dracula

weirdness was the coin of the realm in San Francisco.

This is not a well person. This is a man who put a shock collar on your husband, a man who gets high off frog slime. He's done things you don't want to know about, probably even killed people.' 'At least he believes in something.

The fascinating is only a step away from the freakish.

Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.

He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no-one knew where he kept it. The point was that everyone else had someone, even if in Nobby's case it was probably against their will.

Rincewind rather enjoyed times like this. They convinced him that he wasn't mad because, if he was mad, that left no word at all to describe some of the people he met.

It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in jars. The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.

Man just went past with a cat on his head

We all have our funny little ways. Except me, obviously.

I don't like standard beauty — there is no beauty without strangeness.

I could eat a knob at night.

I needed another sibling the way I needed a sixth toe. Or a twelfth toe. You know, an extra one on each foot. Never mind.

spectacle d'étrangers des plus bizarres et des plus

the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

us to cope with. The Angels are prototypes. Their lack of education has not only rendered them completely useless in a highly technical economy, but it has also given them the leisure to cultivate a powerful resentment Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and to translate it into a destructive cult which the mass media insists on portraying as a sort of isolated oddity, a temporary phenomenon that will shortly become extinct now that it's been called to the attention of the police.

Just to make sure the odd humanoid aberration doesn't get away, always pin it through the nuts.