Quotes About Peculiarity

I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.

Competence excuses strange behavior.

There is a man you see in casinos, usually small, usually dressed by JCPenney, usually not a gambler, who creeps around in soft shoes with a smile of fascination stuck on his face and the body language of a Peeping Tom. He dreams of sniffing your armpits. Or he wants to sit where you just sat. All while he wears his JCPenney costume and speaks in harmless drivel.

It's weird not to be weird.

It's weird not to be weird.

He could think nothing and do nothing after the common fashion of the world; even when he "went wrong," he did so in a highly unusual and eccentric manner.

Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.

I think that something needs to be weird in order to have a real beauty.

Everything's weird if you stare at it.

He can't think without his hat.

Isn't Mr. Cecil Wooley the fattest, slittiest-eyed thing you've ever seen? And don't you suppose that being called Reverend Doctor Mootfowl is not a common phenomenon, and never has been?

and the inexplicable prevalence of supernumerary testicles in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.

brace yourself for feline taxidermy, disco balls, crystal chandeliers, and other oddities of decor.

She could easily make matters more bizarre than embarrassing.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder

The more outre and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.

Our aim will not be to rub off every peculiarity of human character for the sake of a schematic 'normality', nor yet to demand that the person who has been 'thoroughly analysed' shall feel no passions and develop no internal conflicts. The business of the analysis is to secure the best possible psychological conditions for the functions of the ego; with that it has discharged its task

A large number merely strange

There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

It is always the exception that sets the rule.

Everyone is weird. Some people just try to act normal.

if you don't have any weird moments, you're weird

It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to follow.

I'm going to end up in a home for the 'forever weird' if this shit keeps up.