Oddities – Quotes

I laugh at weird

I laugh at weird times – at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It’s not necessarily a judgment – as it is noticing the oddity of something. Eugene Mirman

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower … Read more

I\\’ve been following him

I’ve been following him since Space Oddity. And I’ve followed him from all those albums that didn’t sell, like The Man Who Sold The World and things like that. Above all, apart from all the glamorous rubbish, the music’s there. Ziggy Stardust is a classic album. Elton John

That is another of

That is another of your odd notions,\” said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing \”odd\” that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of \”oddities. Edgar Allan Poe

There are some oddities

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. Douglas Adams

Poetry is not efficient.

Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what … Read more

Perhaps the most remarkable

Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000 years ago, with bizarre stories, peculiar laws, erratic deity, and yet we are able – through argument, selective reading, and desire – to find a powerful framework of laws and moral reasoning that … Read more

I do have quite

I do have quite a lot of sympathy for Fodor’s picture of concepts as information-free atomic entities which get locked onto their referents causally, and to that extent they needn’t involve anything much in the way of learning. But even so it seems perverse to call them ‘innate’. Here we see again the oddity of … Read more

We are the bright

We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows–a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone’s imagination. Dave Eggers

It may be in

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found. Clifford Geertz