Quotes About Idiosyncrasy

So yes, he could be funny. If you thought such things were funny. And the coffee had to be made with a specific number of beans. He could taste any errors in arithmetic.

I enjoy doing complicated or peculiar people.

Defining the norm is its instrument of control over idiosyncrasy.

so many people are a little queer, aren't they?--in fact, most people are when you know them well.

It's always been a thing. Like, I don't touch my belly button. That's something nobody knows about me.

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

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

Balder is not too keen on people who wear ties and work from nine to five. He prefers obsessive idiots who are glued to their computers all night long,

I'm a crazy lunatic, but a lot of the time I'm just sitting at home watching movies.

The belief in the sanctity of one's idiosyncrasy—especially if it be a group idiosyncrasy, and therefore sustained and intensified by mutual flattery—is rapidly converted into a belief in its superiority. More

He's one fry short of a Happy Meal.

I've got this weird thing where I screw my face up. I don't know what it is, but I do it a lot.

I'm a weirdo, but everybody's weird in some kind of way.

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

I'm a huge fan of 'The Odd Couple,' yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too.

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

Everybody is a little insane on some points

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

While traveling around the world, I've had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I've learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

To be me is to be different...

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

I was inclined to drift away from the sum to wonder why people would care what time two trains passed each other (spies), be so picky about seating arrangements (recently divorced people), or—which to this day remains incomprehensible—run the bath with no plug in.

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