Quotes About Oddity

Kids are the most conventional people in the world. It is more important than anything else for them to conform, and I was a kind of oddball. I was driven into being independent. I was very, very unhappy.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.

Florida is a theme park," said Serge. "And the theme is weirdness.

Normalcy is not interesting.

Everybody prefers to see a nut - they're more fascinating.

I think everybody's nuts.

Maybe it's not logical. I don't know. I don't care. I've been asked didnt I think it odd that I should be present to witness the death of everything and I do think it's odd but that doesnt mean it's not so. Someone has to be here.

An old man in a tyrolean costume was shuffling among the rough tables with his hat outheld while a little girl in a smock cranked a barrel organ and a bear in a crinoline twirled strangely upon a board stage defined by a row of tallow candles that dripped and sputtered in their pools of grease.

Glaub es oder glaub es nicht!«, sagte sie. »In einem der letzten Bücher, die ich gekauft habe, einer wunderschönen Erstausgabe aus dem neunzehnten Jahrhundert, habe ich doch tatsächlich eine eingetrocknete Salamischeibe als Lesezeichen gefunden.

I felt the way I often felt in this country - simultaneously conspicuous and invisible, like an oddity whom everyone noticed but chose to ignore

I never seem to know what's going on... Right from the very start, my life has been strange. I think I know what happened... I must have missed all the rehearsals.

It's a rum state of affairs when you feel like punching a jar of mayonnaise in the face.

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

It is never seven that you count to, before you do something. It is never at the count of two. It is always three, and it is strange.

is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with

Something very much like nothing anyone had ever seen before came trotting down the stairs and crossed the room. What is that? the Duke asked, palely. I don't know what it is, said Hark, but it's the only one there ever was.

I don't understand how these things happen to you. They don't happen to anyone else. Who else do you know dropped their keys in a Dumpster? No one, that's who. Only you would do such a thing.

This is the advantage to being an eccentric. Everyone expects you to be eccentric." Emerson

Every funny story has at least one unusual thing in it.

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

I've always had quite long canines. It's a very strange thing. My parents don't have them.

We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.