Quotes About Peculiarity

The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.

And there's a whole spectrum of behavior that we refer to politely as 'eccentricity.

His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.

Volgens de wet van de grote getallen slaat het bizarre altijd wel een keer toe, als de steekproef maar groot genoeg is.

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

All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

In real life there is no such person as the average man.

The rich. You know why they're so odd? Because they can afford to be.

Go ahead and be ordinary. Eccentricity is extraordinary.

There isn't anything weird about my music.

Keep it weird. They'll get it later.

The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that… it is always interested more in one part of its object [thought] than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks.

there was probably something different about everybody and Karl's way of being different was no worse than anybody else's.

Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!

God is gracious to some very peculiar people.

I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

Everyone of you has a health that is unique and totally different from everybody else. Completely! Because we... are all like snowflakes.

Aren't we all a bunch of weirdos?

People think my friend George is weird because he wears sideburns...behind his ears. I think he's weird because he wears false teeth...with braces on them.

People don't expect me to have a weird sense of humor, but I do. I'm very eccentric.

Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs.

There was no way to have a civilized conversation with that guy. It's like he was raised by giraffes or something.

Just remember, when you're with me you're not the strangest person in the room. Go ahead, get weird on me.