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Quotes About Oddity

Why are you wearing a T-shirt under your other T-shirt?" Livvy asked."In case one of them is stolen, " Marked said, as it were entirely normal.
~ Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
She was my friend because she was kind and funny but she had a face like two oysters fused together in a Star Trek matter transporter accident.
~ Unknown
I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
~ Tamsin Greig
To be weird! That is my goal!
~ Alfred Jarry
The popular reaction to David seems to have been wonder at his size rather than at the artistry of his carving. He was a spectacle, a freakish oddity.
~ Martin Gayford
When your head is filled with things that other people don't seem to give much thought to - chymistry, star names, mandrake root, mathematicall magick - it can be hard to make friends. Being short, secretive, and smarter than everybody else doesn't help.
~ Unknown
Life is full of strange phenomena.
~ Matt Haig
The third oddity was the surface on which Lawrence was doing his own succussion. It was a huge, black leather-bound King James Bible. Having done three raps on the Bible, his fist clenched around a vial containing a homeopathic remedy made from amethyst, Lawrence looked up. His face said, "I wish you hadn't seen that". "You don't have to use a Bible," he assured me.
~ Unknown
Even Puck, who could usually be counted on to fart during dinner, was oddly quiet.
~ Michael Buckley
My eyes widened as I looked at him. 'Then you bit me, you weirdo.
~ Unknown
Normal people are rarely original, but they are sometimes bizarre.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
~ Moliere
HIGH STRANGENESS: 2/10. Aside from mind-control rays affecting one out of every thirty Americans, this isn't all that strange.
~ Unknown
Perhaps every family is odd.
~ Nancy Thayer
Perhaps every family is odd." "You can't build a straight house out of crooked wood, but you can build a very cozy crooked house
~ Nancy Thayer
It was singular. It was damned odd. He must have touched a letter under her pillow because when he straightened up
~ Ngaio Marsh
The whole thing has the smell of the uncanny.
~ Nicola Griffith
The girl could tell he did not like this man whose business was the uncanny.
~ Nicola Griffith
Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were being flung out of it: hence he always bore about on his hat scraps of melon rinds and other such articles.
~ Nikolai Gogol
He was a skinny, mop-haired boy up from San Marcos with haunted eyes. He wooed her with strange animal facts. The Texas horned lizard, he said, shoots blood out of its eyes when threatened, up to five feet. He was a fount of facts like these. Did you know, he would say, that when the hairy frog is attacked, it breaks its own toe bones and forces them through its skin to make claws?
~ Noah Hawley
Florentynka wcale nie uwa?a?a si? za wariatk?. Ksi??yc prze?ladowa? j?, jak ka?dy normalny prze?ladowca. Ale której? nocy wydarzy?o si? co? dziwnego.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Don't you think baby corns are scary? There's just something wrong about their midget bodies.
~ P.C. Cast
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
Werewolves don't do well on their own. They need someone, pack or family, or they begin to get odd. Werewolves who get odd tend to end up dead -- and sometimes take a lot of other people down with them when they go.
~ Patricia Briggs