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Quotes About Oddity

Nothing kills a party like an oversize metal hedgehog.
~ Ilona Andrews
I was an introverted kid; I liked my time alone. And the rest of my family is pretty extroverted, so I felt like a bit of an oddball. They're very gregarious and charming and charismatic people. I always felt like I was struggling as a young person. I think everyone was very surprised to hear that I wanted to be an actor.
~ Mark Ruffalo
My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.
~ Jonathan Winters
The choice of roles as I grow older gets more and more limited, so if I pin myself to one kind of part I would get in trouble. So, these oddball ladies came along for me to do - I guess Terry Gilliam helped in this respect. I have found them more interesting, flashier and I get more mileage out of them.
~ Katherine Helmond
Mlawhlaoblossblayowblagmilebbingoblaiblblafblablallblayarblablabnablahblallblah!' 'What?' 'Bla?' 'Bla?' 'Yarb?' 'Bah! You're stupid and useless and ugly!' 'Blabluablablablahllalalabala, too!' Iskaral Pust scowled at it. The bhokaral scowled back. 'Rat poison!' Pust hissed. And then smiled. The bhokaral offered him a dung sausage. And then smiled.
~ Steven Erikson
Had a note from Mr Cherry asking me when I can resume my paper round. I sent a note back to say that due to my mother's desertion I am still in a mental state. This is true. I wore odd socks yesterday without knowing it. One was red and one was green. I must pull myself together. I could end up in a lunatic asylum.
~ Sue Townsend
The most important thing to keep in mind is not that we are all the same, but that we are all equally weird.
~ Mohsin Hamid
A man from another hemisphere, another background, coming to rest in middle life in the cottage of a half-neglected estate, an estate full of reminders of its Edwardian past, with few connections with the present. An oddity among the estates and big houses of the valley, and I a further oddity in its grounds. I felt unanchored and strange.
~ Naipaul
and the rest is taxidery. --Morticia Addams ( The Addams Family
~ Charles Addams
Idiosyncrasy
~ Thomas Hardy
hundred and eighty-nine, and expertise in weaponry." "And you speak oddly." Knowing
~ Kathryn Shay
A thin pig was about as common as balls on a scarecrow.
~ Kealan Patrick Burke
I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
~ Calvin Trillin
Disculpe, pero ¿podría decirme por qué yo no tengo compañero, mientras que todos los demás lo tienen? —le gritó. —¿Por qué? ¡Porque éste es un átomo impar y tú eres el electrón de valenciaaa…!
~ George Gamow
Did you ever get the feeling that the world is a tuxedo and you're a pair of brown shoes?
~ George Gobel
You're not weird, are you? (Jack) Not particularly, no. (Syd) Well, good. I got enough weirdness for the lot of us. Don't want to share it. (Jack)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.
~ Jim Piddock
You forgot the 'my precious,'" Anna said dryly. "If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.
~ Patricia Briggs
It wasn't every day a guy saw a headless beaver marching down the side of a road, not even in Dean Robillard's larger-than-life world.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
It wasn't everyday a guy saw a headless beaver marching down the side of the road,...
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic.
~ David Spade
I don't think anyone can listen to a Smiths song and not scream your lungs out in recognition of what it's like to feel odd.
~ Sue Perkins
Ezra the artist, who Possuelo saw fit to set free, took to painting a mural to fill one of the larger caverns. It tickled him that this could become a pilgrimage destination for future Tonists, if indeed there would be any future Tonists, and that his cave paintings might be endlessly analyzed by scholars of tomorrow. He introduced some odd elements just to confuse them. A dancing bear, a five-eyed boy, and an eleven-hour clock missing the number 4.
~ Neal Shusterman
get me in a room with more than 3 people I tend to act ill odd.
~ Charles Bukowski