Quotes About Peculiarity

There were pecans, there were cashews and then there was just plain nuts.

If [she] had come to prefer the company of odd ducks, it was possibly because they had no conception of oddity, or rather, they thought you were odd if you weren't.

Barnabas the Barmy

Which was more fucked up than a one-legged nun doing power squats in a cucumber patch.

My eyes widened as I looked at him. 'Then you bit me, you weirdo.

Normal people are rarely original, but they are sometimes bizarre.

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

HIGH STRANGENESS: 2/10. Aside from mind-control rays affecting one out of every thirty Americans, this isn't all that strange.

He is just different. That is all." She looked perplexed, but said, "Different is good. Different is wonderful.

When we choose to be different, we have to expect a little attention.

He loved the strange privacy of being different.

The whole thing has the smell of the uncanny.

The girl could tell he did not like this man whose business was the uncanny.

Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were being flung out of it: hence he always bore about on his hat scraps of melon rinds and other such articles.

He was a skinny, mop-haired boy up from San Marcos with haunted eyes. He wooed her with strange animal facts. The Texas horned lizard, he said, shoots blood out of its eyes when threatened, up to five feet. He was a fount of facts like these. Did you know, he would say, that when the hairy frog is attacked, it breaks its own toe bones and forces them through its skin to make claws?

Florentynka wcale nie uwa?a?a si? za wariatk?. Ksi??yc prze?ladowa? j?, jak ka?dy normalny prze?ladowca. Ale której? nocy wydarzy?o si? co? dziwnego.

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

But she found herself drawn to Ivy because he wasn't like her at all, wasn't like anyone, really. Most people were different because they wanted to be noticed. ivy was different because he couldn't be anyone else

I'm happy. Which is the weirdest thing of all.

Or that Isaac Porter bit his nails like a man playing a mouth organ?

Job was what you'd technically describe as a loony.