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Quotes About Oddity

I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.
~ Ezra Miller
MY BABY HAS SIX EYES AND BASICALLY NO SKULL
~ David Foster Wallace
I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether (He's an oddity in that he enjoys having fun)
~ William Shakespeare
Two conspirators with a frog, following the line of a whiffletree.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
~ Holly Black
Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird.
~ Unknown
Crazy as a loon—and Doctor Roge vaguely recalls other crazy loons, not remembering any one of them in particular. Now, nothing M. Achille can do will surprise us: because he's a crazy loon!
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Vince had answered the door in a body-hugging satin gown with a basket of fruit on his head. "J. Edgar Hoover?" I asked him.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Why am I always attracting women who still slept with stuffed animals?
~ Jerry Stahl
Everyone in this town was a weirdo, that was a solid-gold fact, and it didn't matter because I wasn't alone anymore. I had the kitten.
~ Jess Lourey
Why do washing machines eat socks? Do they taste good? Should I eat socks?
~ Jessica Park
Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.
~ Mark Haddon
There is no beauty without some strangeness
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
I think that something needs to be weird in order to have real beauty.
~ Carine Roitfeld
There's nothing worse than a perceptive universe if there's something weird about you.
~ Philip K. Dick
People are pretty fucking weird, if you haven't noticed.
~ David Levithan
I learned that people below the age of sixteen cannot deliver milk in the U.K., but I don't think I learned why. It was just one of those weird English injustices, like summer.
~ David Sedaris
Don't go to the hardware store for milk.
~ David Sedaris
If someone invented a thermometer that measured weirdness, it would probably melt under my tongue.
~ Dean Koontz
At one point I turned to the French language, which gave me the gender of all things. But to no satisfaction. I would readily agree that trucks and murders were masculine while bicycles and life were feminine. But how odd that a breast was masculine. And it made little sense that garbage was feminine while perfume was masculine — and no sense at all that television, which I would have deemed repellently masculine, was in fact feminine. When
~ Yann Martel
But I doubt very much that Sheba's comic oddity will actually earn her more lenience from the court. In all likelihood, she'll receive exactly the same punishment as a man. The guardians of gender equality won't stand for anything else. In the end, I suspect, being female will do nothing for Sheba except deny her the grandeur of genuine villainy.
~ Zoë Heller
Funny-peculiar or funny-ha-ha
~ Unknown
They're all kind of weird." "Everybody's kind of weird.
~ Unknown