Bizarre Quotes

• There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Education, Humor

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Seventh" (radio program) (1978)

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• No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Kids, Parenting

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.

  David Gerrold

  Acceptance, Loving Life, Interesting

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• It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

  Meryl Streep

  Funny Inspirational, Children, Food

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• We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.

  John Hughes

  Breakfast, Hiding, 80s

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• A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Morning, Truth

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.423, Modern Library

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• I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.

  Frida Kahlo

  Love, Hope, Recovery

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• If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.

  Niels Bohr

  Work, Creativity, Ideas

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• Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

  Tim Burton

  Mean, America, People

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• A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.

  Maya Angelou

  Innuendo, Niceties, Seems

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.423, Modern Library

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• Here’s how bizarre the war is that we’re in Iraq, and we should have known this right from the get-go: When we first went into Iraq, Germany didn’t want to go. Germany. The Michael Jordan of war took a pass.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, War, Iraq

  Stand-up performance at RIT, 2005.

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• Everybody has a ‘gripping stranger’ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it’s the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing White Shoulders who stamps your book at the library—a stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying ‘Drop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida,’ you’d follow them.

  Douglas Coupland

  Book, Love You, Kids

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• Bizarre! That's the only word I can use to describe life sometimes. Just freaking bizarre.

  James Patterson

  Use, Sometimes, I Can

  James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”

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• A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

  David Brin

  Neurosis, Behavior

  David Brin (2009). “The Uplift War”, p.221, Spectra

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• People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.

  George Carlin

  Sleep, People, Gone

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.33, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

  Salman Rushdie

  Atheist, Atheism, Chance

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• People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably. It's like having a relative go absolutely nuts. Somebody has to say, "I think Uncle Charlie's off his rocker." We are behaving in a bizarre manner.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Uncles, Lying, Thinking

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• I love it [a career as an actor] to bits, but it's highly bizarre, especially when you're playing a psychopathic rapist with various diseases.

  David Oakes

  Careers, Actors, Disease

  Source: collider.com

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• This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you're entering the wondrous dimension of imagination. . . Next stop The Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight, Reality, Land

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• Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that is Chicago, with all its gloriously odd and wonderful people. This book possesses both the nerve of Nelson Algren and the existential comedy of Albert Camus.

  Joe Meno

  Real, Book, Writing

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• Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?

  Kate Atkinson

  Feminist, Awkward, Feminism

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• One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Dust, Never Settle, Television

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• In my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric and psychoanalytic dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and therefore perilous) as propagating the teachings of some of the most bizarre cults. The only vital difference is that the cults are less dangerous because their errors are more identifiable.

  Jay E. Adams

  Teaching, Errors, Differences

  Jay E. Adams (1986). “A Theology of Christian Counseling: More Than Redemption”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very artistic upbringing. And I fantasized about being a drug-dealer when I was a kid. I thought it would be a good opportunity; I knew that the market would be strong. Is that bizarre?

  Jared Leto

  Strong, Kids, Artist

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• Honestly, ever since I've been married, the part of a job as an actress where you have to kiss other people, I find totally bizarre.

  Leelee Sobieski

  Jobs, Kissing, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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