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Quotes About Peculiarity

The more particular you make something, the more universal it becomes.
~ Greta Gerwig
No standard exists for the peculiarity and ridiculousness of things, not even one that is unspeakable or unknowable, words which are merely a front or a subterfuge. These qualities – the peculiar and the ridiculous – are immanent and absolute in all existence and would be in any conceivable existent order . . .
~ Thomas Ligotti
Florida is a theme park," said Serge. "And the theme is weirdness.
~ Tim Dorsey
Everybody prefers to see a nut - they're more fascinating.
~ Penn Jillette
I think everybody's nuts.
~ Johnny Depp
los que dicen que las personas son creadas de dos en dos se equivocan. Nadie se parece a nadie.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The true enemy of man is generalization.
~ Czes?aw Mi?osz
I assume they're still there, ostriching themselves and eating paint chips, or whatever it is they do in their spare time. I
~ Cherie Priest
Eccentricty had flowered into madness.
~ Laurie R. King
It is never seven that you count to, before you do something difficult. It is never at the count of two. It is always three, and it is strange.
~ Lemony Snicket
It is never seven that you count to, before you do something. It is never at the count of two. It is always three, and it is strange.
~ Lemony Snicket
is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with
~ Lemony Snicket
Something very much like nothing anyone had ever seen before came trotting down the stairs and crossed the room. What is that? the Duke asked, palely. I don't know what it is, said Hark, but it's the only one there ever was.
~ James Thurber
This is the advantage to being an eccentric. Everyone expects you to be eccentric." Emerson
~ Janet Evanovich
It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.
~ Eric Stoltz
Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much everyone is on a tail of at least one of them. We may collect strange memorabilia or read esoteric books, hold unusual religious beliefs or wear odd-sized shoes, suffer rare diseases or enjoy obscure movies.
~ Virginia Postrel
It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
~ Billy Gibbons
Every funny story has at least one unusual thing in it.
~ Matt Besser
The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
~ Dave Barry
I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
~ Jean Genet
Everybody seems to know me. It's very strange.
~ Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Beauty can come in strange forms.
~ James Dyson
I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.
~ Ben Katchor