Quotes About Peculiarity

The peculiarity of the Christian religion as has been so often shown and acknowledged even by opponents,248 lies in the person of Christ.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.

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

Do not expect others to share my depraved tastes.

Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.

Crazy as a loon—and Doctor Roge vaguely recalls other crazy loons, not remembering any one of them in particular. Now, nothing M. Achille can do will surprise us: because he's a crazy loon!

Your calling is in your difference and uniqueness

I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out.

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

You are really nuts, you know it? One a these days they're gonna come over and just lock you up! You aren't playing with a full deck, Eunice. I think somebody blew your pilot light out. There's more. You know what? You got splinters in the windmill of your mind. You're playin hockey with a warped puck! I think you dine sprung a leak in your dingey....

There is no beauty without some strangeness

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

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

Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

When the going get's weird, the weird turn pro.

People are pretty fucking weird, if you haven't noticed.

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.

It was like seeing someone who wore a striped tie or parted his hair on the left — a detail, but not a telling one.

I never knew whether I was drawn to eccentric people or if they were drawn to me.

If someone invented a thermometer that measured weirdness, it would probably melt under my tongue.

Funny-peculiar or funny-ha-ha

Exaggeration is a standard peculiarity of man. To deprecate is often a form of exaggeration which people do not notice, because it appears to be its opposite.

They're all kind of weird." "Everybody's kind of weird.

Your Grace," he said, bowing as if it was perfectly normal for him to have an ermine weasel clinging to him like a leech.