Quotes About Peculiarity

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

Mr. Harrison was certainly different from other people…and that is the essential characteristic of a crank, as everybody knows.

She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself.

They be crazier than we are.

Did not Dr. Kunastrokius, that great man, at his leisure hours, take the greatest delight imaginable in combing of asses tails, and plucking the dead hairs out with his teeth, though he had tweezers always in his pocket?

The Punkwat twins! Brentwood is the world's smallest giant, whilst his brother, Elwood, is the largest midget in the world. They baffle science!

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13

awe-inspiring shit we put on shelves." These included live waxworms, a five-pound gummi bear, a diver's speargun, a book titled Venus with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Muscular Women, a butt plug attached to a plush foxtail,

We are all the same in that we all want to be different.

Ve den som vil bevare sitt særpreg!

The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.

I would just randomly blurt out things like, 'What if a man showed up today and was carrying an umbrella, but it wasn't raining?' Eventually, people started to call me weird.

Different people need different things.

People really want different things depending on who they are.

I am more proud of what distinguishes man from the animals than of what he has in common with them.

To be me is to be different...

Looking like a rake with two plastic tangerines tied to it

Weirdness is beauty, beauty weirdness.

Sometimes on the bridge of his flagship, Beatty would release his inner tension by making faces. "For no apparent reason," said an officer who served with him, "he would screw his face into a fearsome grimace and hold it quite unconsciously for a minute or two." Another peculiarity was his addiction to fortune-tellers: a Mrs. Robinson, a Madame Dubois, and, in Edinburgh when he commanded the Grand Fleet, a "Josephine.

the odds are good, but the goods are odd

I know this perfectly well, but it was precisely this that I liked - her thinking me silly. Such a peculiar vice: to be secretly pleased to be allowed to observe that one is being slightly robbed.