Quotes About Offbeat

Since the science of economics is primarily a set of tools, as opposed to a subject matter, then no subject, however offbeat, need be beyond its reach.

I would be happy to be labeled as a writer of offbeat stories. I don't know how to do anything else.

The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.

I just always gravitate toward the kind of characters or people that maybe you don't want to talk to for a long time at a party, but you do like to watch what they're doing.

I've been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I've often had a guide who's been able to show me things that you wouldn't see with a tour group.

Air travel efficiency would improve if more travelers started going to less popular places.

I'm convinced people are bored of generic travel

Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.

I love movies like '500 Days of Summer' and 'Juno.' Something offbeat without the glamour and the makeup and the clothing.

I love strange things; my favorite movies are weird, eclectic, and intriguing.

I love playing odd roles.

You can get away with a lot as long as it has a silly edge to it.

I like being absurd. Being silly.

Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.

Now here's the thing about being a little off-center; you're never sure if you're a bona fide loon or if you have insight that other people don't have.You have to navigate through life using a kind of psychic gyroscope to keep from falling too far one way or another, and you feel a peculiar kinship with other people who are also a little bit off-center.

Yeah, I'm a little weird. I'm definitely a little eccentric.

He's a good old sort. If only he weren't plumb crazy!

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

I love a good non sequitur.

I am a dork in disguise; I love doing stupid stuff.

Somebody sent me their tooth, which I now wear as an earring. It's a molar, I think. I love it when people send me body parts.

We tend to love things that are left of center anyway.

I tend to stay away from the big tourist traps.

Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.