Best 382 quotes in «weird quotes» category

The future is marked out by the scars left behind from those who chase their dreams with eager claws and teeth. - The Malwatch

The goal is not to fly higher than everyone else. The goal is to fly as high as you need to enter the clouds of your dreams, whether those be the cirrus clouds in the stratosphere, or the fog in the valley. - The Malwatch

The hardest part of being a Canadian kid is having to color in Nunavut with a crayon in school, hell on earth.

The human mind is a weird place.

The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one.

The Milieu does not lack pets, they are simply of a different form. Have you never nursed a half-fledged idea into the existence of a creation? - The Malwatch

The Milieu has lots of trolls. They are also quite literal trolls. We don't let them hide their minds in pretty forms. - The Malwatch

The hearts and flowers type of love is an imaginary thing that people want to believe exists, so they pretend it does. The reality is love is usually messy and difficult and can often be unpleasant. It can make us do ugly things. That doesn't make it any less worth chasing after. - The Malwatch

The more you learn, the less weapons your enemies will have to wield against you. - The Malwatch

The novel's trick involved re-telling a classic Faery story —young women abducted into another world— using the conventions of realism. One of these conventions was giving the event a precise date. According to the novel, the three women disappeared on February 14th 1900... But Picnic at Hanging Rock is not set in our 1900, in which February 14th fell on a Wednesday, not a Saturday.

The most important thing to keep in mind is not that we are all the same, but that we are all equally weird.

The most interesting people are the unusual. No one writes about or discusses the average, the ordinary, or the common; they write about and discuss the weird, the mad and the different, so if you are one, even though the opinions of others are of no importance, you are, in their eyes, significant enough to notice and remember.

The possibilities in the Milieu are amazing. You can jump off a cliff and if you fail to sprout wings and fall to your death, you can always try again. - The Malwatch

There is nothing wrong with being weird. Anyone who tells you different is only trying to be normal, which is too weird for me.

There's a reason for my ridiculousness. - The Malwatch

There are two sides to every wing and it's difficult to see both of them at the same time. - The Malwatch

There's a weird logic that explains a common truth.

The only absolute is that nothing is absolute, and even that may not be absolute. - The Malwatch

There's only so much of yourself to give, be prudent what you spend it on. - The Malwatch

There's nothing sexier than imaging myself as an Oxford comma getting unambiguously banged. Throw in a semicolon in between two closely related independent clauses, and a volcanic love of punctuation eruption is guaranteed.

These are the sports, the offthrows, of the universe instead of the species; these are the weird children of the lust of the spheres.

These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?

There's no such thing as perfection. Perfection implies there is only one correct way to do something, and that's never the case. - The Malwatch.

The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusual or too specialized to be tackled by the regular force. There were thirty departments in all, starting at the more mundane Neighborly Disputes (SO-30) and going onto Literary Detectives (SO-27) and Art Crime (SO-24). Anything below SO-20 was restricted information, although it was common knowledge that the ChronoGuard was SO-12 and Antiterrorism SO-9. It is rumored that SO-1 was the department that polices the SpecOps themselves. Quite what the others do is anyone's guess. What is known is that the individual operatives themselves are mostly ex-military or ex-police and slightly unbalanced. 'If you want to be a SpecOp,' the saying goes, 'act kinda weird...

The truth belongs not to the one who think they are most right, but to the one most willing to prove their truth is reliably predictive of future outcomes. - The Malwatch

The start point is the present and no matter where you start, you can go anywhere. The path may just be longer or shorter depending on where you are. - The Malwatch

The sky isn't the limit, your form is, but you can make it into something else to proceed in a different way. - The Malwatch

They are a contrast to your own ideations, letting you see the shadows caused by their still rough edges. Without them, everything would just be a flat greyness. -The Malwatch

The X files are here to explain to you the weird and odd and strange stuff of the world.

This is ridiculous. I’m talking to a horse about politics.

They climbed the wide stairways. Their footsteps echoed and echoed through the house. "What on earth will you be doing with something so large?" said Mum. "I shall live in it with my servants, of course," said Mina. "Or I shall establish a school." "A school, my lady?" "Yes. A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.

Thomas was baffled by this girl—first the connection he’d felt to her from the very beginning, then the mind-speaking, now this. “Everything about you is weird. You know that, right?” “Judging by your little hiding spot, I’d say you’re not so normal yourself. Like living in the woods, do ya?

Thoughts cannot be changed. They are the product of our experiences. But how we apply those thoughts to the world, and the actions we take based on the, can change the thoughts we have in the future. Don't attack yourself for how you think, decide how you will act with those thoughts in you head. - The Malwatch

Thoughts eat me creepy words crush my head.. I hear them talk,they scream and howl for each other.. Weeping souls longing trapped in a cage full time.

This capacity to fold the completely weird into daily life, to make the aliens ourselves, is a quality I look for in a good, weird book.

Today we're younger than we're ever gonna be

To create possibilities... you have to go beyond whats normal!

To make a dream requires a piece of yourself. It may be small or it may be large, but every dream you make contains a part of you. - The Malwatch

Trolls are not entirely a bad thing. They are a contrast to your own ideations, letting you see the shadows caused by their still rough edges. Without them, everything would just be a flat greyness. Not to say their methods are acceptable. They aim to hurt because they themselves fear seeing flaws in their own thoughts, or they are unwilling to accept that different does not mean wrong. Conflict is not something that needs to be avoided, and there are many ways to find the ideal. - The Malwatch

The Venus Factor weight loss system has nothing to do with silly exercise machines, cardio, restrictive or pre-packaged diets, or whatever weird berry pill the diet industry is talking about these days.

To do the best you can do, without qualifiers, will ultimately kill you. You should only do the best you can do without sacrificing yourself to the whims and wishes of those around you. - The Malwatch

Too little knowledge and you risk misunderstanding, too much knowledge and you risk being unable to comprehend. Entertain as much learning as your mind can handle, but do not overwhelm yourself before you're capable of withstanding it. - The Malwatch

Trust me, I am nuts!

Treat a hatchling like the smaller adult you want them to be and they will grow into the role. - The Malwatch

Trust your instincts. They've been evolving longer than your intellect and are much more finely honed. - The Malwatch

Truth and lies both shape reality, but one brings stability and the other chaos. - The Malwatch

True writers have multiple personalities. Every one of them is insane.

Um, thanks,” Jackson told her. “And your name is…?” “I’m Margaret, Margaret Van Der Graaf,” she answered with another eerie smile. Her teeth were so white that they looked bleached. “Van Der Graaf?” Jackson repeated, trying to stifle his laughter. He didn’t want to be rude to the only person in sight, to this kind-hearted stranger who was offering to help him, but… Van Der Graaf? “What are you laughing at?” Margaret asked with curiosity, flashing him a calculating gaze. “I like my name. If you’re going to be a jerk, then I won’t help you. You can stay out here on the street through the night for all I care.” “…Harsh,” said Jackson, giving her a quizzical glance back. There was something ‘off’ about her, something that Jackson couldn’t quite place, something that bordered on horrible loneliness and longing. “Who else lives here, Margaret Van Der Graaf?” He couldn’t resist saying her name aloud. Despite its hilarity, it had a nice ring to it. “Who else lives here?” he urged. “Me, myself and I,” said Margaret simply, snickering when she saw his horrified and annoyed expression

Use your wings often, or you'll forget how to fly. - The Malwatch

Truth does not change. It is a statement of what our current reality is. Reality, however, is flexible. It is a collective understanding of the world around us and the patterns that allow us to predict the future. It changes as we learn and assimilate new facts into our understanding as a species of the things that exist around us. - The Malwatch