Quotes About Oddity

I've been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if you're walking down the street and some schizo guy comes up to you and vomits on you: You wouldn't be hurt by that, you'd just think it's weird.

One weird thing about me: I come home from practice or a game or whatever, and somehow my left sock always seems to get off my foot, and I end up walking around with one sock on.

I definitely do weird things every show.

My goal is to be weirder than everybody else and hope that no one stops me. So far, no one has.

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

My sensibilities are like, 'I want it to be weirder.'

My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics.

I remembered what it was like: the weirdness, being the odd man out, trying to make my way around campus, and trying to figure out who my friends would be, who to steer clear of. I wrote it all down in a fanciful way - the feelings of alienation, the feelings of uncertainty, of being away from home for the first time.

I don't think I've ever tried to be anything other than a weirdo.

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

I'm a weirdo, but everybody's weird in some kind of way.

I've always been strange; I've always been slightly to the left, like 'weirdo' to other people, I guess.

I've been a weirdo since I was a kid.

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

I was always the weirdo at school.

I've always been attracted to weirdos.

People have actually had my face tattooed on to their bodies, which is so odd.

The sheer oddity of life seems to me of more and more importance, because more and more the pretense is that life is charted, predictable, and controllable.

Daily Law: Embrace your strangeness. Identify what makes you different. Fuse those things together and become an anomaly.

If one person stops to see your beggarman laying bricks in the street, more will do the same. They will gather like dust bunnies. Then, given a gentle push, they will enter your museum or watch your show. To create a crowd you have to do something different and odd. Any kind of curiosity will serve the purpose, for crowds are magnetically attracted by the unusual and inexplicable.

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

Mr. Harrison was certainly different from other people…and that is the essential characteristic of a crank, as everybody knows.

They be crazier than we are.

Did not Dr. Kunastrokius, that great man, at his leisure hours, take the greatest delight imaginable in combing of asses tails, and plucking the dead hairs out with his teeth, though he had tweezers always in his pocket?