Quotes About Peculiarity

We're not just 'ladies in rock.' We're weird people!

When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said 'That's ridiculous. Why did you do that?' It's because you remember it. You've never been to another 9:03 meeting.

I don't make any sense: I'm a germaphobe, but I'm really messy.

Wir sollten immer daran denken, daß es auch noch etwas anderes auf der Welt gibt als die Gewöhnlichkeit.

Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

Idiosyncrasy

hundred and eighty-nine, and expertise in weaponry." "And you speak oddly." Knowing

the odd tooth?

A thin pig was about as common as balls on a scarecrow.

It is not the universal and the regular that characterize the individual, but rather the unique. He is not to be understood as a recurrent unit but as something unique and singular which in the last analysis can be neither known nor compared with anything else.

De perto, ninguém é normal.

What is this guy . . . nuts?

Oddity is in the mind of the receiver.

You're not weird, are you? (Jack) Not particularly, no. (Syd) Well, good. I got enough weirdness for the lot of us. Don't want to share it. (Jack)

Particularity leads to peculiarity and then to pathological behavior. The three Ps. It is very insidious. You would eventually end up in a box. If you try to control your environment, it will control you. And everyone else around you will always have to be making adjustments to your maddening idiosyncracies...You are beginning to enslave yourself with your fussiness.

Well you are a piece of work aren't you?

Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic.

Well, I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them.

There is nothing wrong being different. Being peculiar actually makes you stand out from others.

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty. — Charles Baudelaire

get me in a room with more than 3 people I tend to act ill odd.

But hereditary diseases and some other facts make me believe that the rule has a wider extension, and that, when there is no apparent reason why a peculiarity should appear at any particular age, yet it does tend to appear in the offspring at the same period at which it first appeared in the parent. I believe this rule to be of the highest importance in explaining the laws of embryology.

there is a point at which eccentricity begins to impact operational effectiveness.

tuhaf olan, hep güzel olandan daha iyidir.