Quotes About Quirkiness

Woo the muse of the odd.

She always gave the impression of having accidentally wandered in from a mad scientist's conference, and felt rather desperate to get back.

All things counter, original, spare, strange...

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Sometimes I think she's got hats in the belfry

I am Winnie's pee! I thought. Hear me roar! It was times like these when I wondered if everyone really was as strange as I was, or if I was just a special case.

I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home." Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup:

Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. Does anysing on you vork properly? Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.

I like to write on anything that is intriguing, unheard of - something that is offbeat.

Children are weird. I was going to say 'most children,' but I think this a rare universal law.

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

Florida is a theme park," said Serge. "And the theme is weirdness.

Normalcy is not interesting.

Everybody prefers to see a nut - they're more fascinating.

I think everybody's nuts.

Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time.

This is the advantage to being an eccentric. Everyone expects you to be eccentric." Emerson

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.

I get along very well with the cast of '30 Rock.' I guess I bring a certain quirkiness to the show as well. I'm just thankful they keep asking me. I didn't think I was going to be asked back so every time they say, 'We want you back,' I'm screaming. I'm jumping up and down and screaming.

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange - so I really like characters who are just the tiniest bit weird. I find enormous comfort in that - someone who's kind of normal just doesn't feel as true.

Embrace the weird. Enjoy it because it's never going away.

Bernie's idea of packing is to empty his drawers onto the floor and then push the suitcase in front of him, wide open, until it's full. When we get there he never has any sunglasses or toothpaste, but his books are packed alphabetically by author.