Quotes About Peculiarity

Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

oddness or novelty (qualities which usually give value to anything)

Forgive me, he went on. For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.

Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things -Bram Stoker, Dracula

weirdness was the coin of the realm in San Francisco.

The fascinating is only a step away from the freakish.

Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.

Rincewind rather enjoyed times like this. They convinced him that he wasn't mad because, if he was mad, that left no word at all to describe some of the people he met.

We all have our funny little ways. Except me, obviously.

I don't like standard beauty — there is no beauty without strangeness.

I could eat a knob at night.

I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.

When things turn weird, the weird turn pro.

The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.

Any time I do something, I want to remember this is what separates me from everybody else.

At length Old Tiro returned, lifting the curtain for his master. How shall I describe Marcus Tullius Cicero? The beautiful all look alike, but a plain man is plain according to his own peculiarity.

Without meaning to, I've become the neighborhood weirdo.

Vivimos en un mundo que no sólo es más extraño de lo que pensamos, sino más extraño de lo que podemos pensar." Sir James Hopwood Jeans

The most important thing to keep in mind is not that we are all the same, but that we are all equally weird.

Either we're all ordinary, or else none of us is ordinary.

People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human.

and the rest is taxidery. --Morticia Addams ( The Addams Family

The Beautiful is always strange.