Freakishness Quotes & Sayings

It's intriguing. I've always felt like a freak myself. But what would it be like, to wear my freakishness on the outside, to have it be obvious to the world? — Alex Flinn

Freakishness could happen to anyone at any time. — Cammie McGovern

There was nothing dignified about peeing behind a tree with your super-cute wilderness tour guide lurking nearby. — Desni Dantone

There is something inherently stupid about gentrified thinking. It's a dumbing down and smoothing over of what people are actually like. It's a social position rooted in received wisdom, with aesthetics blindly selected from the presorted offerings of marketing and without information or awareness about the structures that create its own delusional sense of infallibility. Gentrified thinking is like the bourgeois version of Christian fundamentalism, a huge, unconscious conspiracy of homogenous patterns with no awareness about its own freakishness. The gentrification mentality is rooted in the belief that obedience to consumer identity over recognition of lived experience is actually normal, neutral, and value free. — Sarah Schulman

EVANGELIST By GEORGE MILLIGAN, D.D. — Walter F. Adeney

While the bodies of young children are usually relaxed and flexible, if experiences of fear are continuous over the years, chronic tightening happens. Our shoulders may become permanently knotted and raised, our head thrust forward, our back hunched, our chest sunken. Rather than a temporary reaction to danger, we develop a permanent suit of armor. We become, as Chogyam Trungpa puts it, "a bundle of tense muscles defending our existence." We often don't even recognize this armor because it feels like such a familiar part of who we are. But we can see it in others. And when we are meditating, we can feel it in ourselves - the tightness, the areas where we feel nothing. — Tara Brach

I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of 'Postman Pat.' It has been a joy to do. — Archie Panjabi

Humans have invented all kinds of symbols to communicate not only with other humans but more importantly with ourselves. — Jose Luis Ruiz

A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend — Joss Whedon

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost. — Witold Gombrowicz

It's one of the happy things about a world gone so wrong: your personal freakishness don't stand out so much. — Alden Bell

Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak. — Val McDermid

But the one thing she no longer had any question about was that they were an impregnable unit. The world might attempt to tear them apart, but the only way it would ever succeed would be through death. — Nalini Singh

The only basis on which to work for God is an esteemed appreciation of his deliverance. — Oswald Chambers

Reconquer the streets, the markets - the public spaces, with the same message of opposition: We are devastated, but we will not give up. With torches and roses, we deliver this message to the world: We do not let fear break us. And we do not let the fear of fear silence us. — Jens Stoltenberg

Basically, I feel inspired by any artist that seems to want to introduce the world to their likes and perspective rather than trying to shape their interests and point of view to fit better into the world around them. — Marie Calloway