Quotes & Sayings About The Oddballs

The only thing wrong with me was that I was a weirdo that hated school. I'm sure now there'd be a disorder for it, but I was just an oddball. — Eugene Mirman

I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play. — Dan Auerbach

Notice the malice toward an independent man. Look back at your own life. Howard, and at the people you've met. They know. They're afraid. You're a reproach. — Ayn Rand

This book is dedicated to the uncool, uncoordinated, unexceptional, uncharming, uninteresting, and especially the unashamed. To everyone from the Awkwards to the Zeroes, living as the proud oddballs they are. This book is dedicated to my people. — Drew Hayes

This is what God's kingdom is like: a bunch of outcasts and oddballs gathered at a table, not because they are rich or worthy or good, but because they are hungry, because they said yes. And there's always room for more. — Rachel Held Evans

I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs. — Steve Roper

I wasn't sure how it looked on paper when a crew of costumed oddballs took on Canadian meth dealers. — Tea Krulos

There is no more useless activity than that of periodization, the packaging of history, in particular cultural history, into discrete eras - the Jazz Age, the Greatest Generation, the Eisenhower years, the Sixties. Such periods can never be honestly articulated without recourse to so many demurrals and arbitrary demarcations, and the granting of so many exceptions, as to render them practically useless for any kind of serious historical purpose. In times of supposed license, repression reigns freely all around; in eras renowned for their conventionality, oddballs and freaks hoist their banners high. — Michael Chabon

I'd much rather be the oddball out than kind of create something of myself that I'm not proud of. — Selena Gomez

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. — James Broughton

The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of sports figures, ax murderers, politicians, and rock singers, the ever-running river of celebs, heavies, and oddballs that we use to spice up our own relatively humdrum lives has of late become a very watery gruel. Where have all the good guys and bad guys gone? Why does everyone out there look so gray? — Shana Alexander

Stay away from the normals, the small-minded people who fill their brains with small-minded pursuits, who blend in and keep up with the Joneses. Those people will tear you down and make you boring. Instead, surround yourself with the weirds. With the misfits, oddballs, and outcasts. Because the normals, bless their hearts, have no idea how to have fun." *** — Penny Reid

I love oddballs and nerdiness, and it's a fun world to write in. — Alec Berg

These days, the teenage years are considered a time for socializing with a focus on dating and popularity. When relieved of the pressures of dating too young, I believe a young person is better able to focus on who they really are and find themselves in that crucial time when your personality is beginning to germinate. It's all that time reading, dreaming, and goofing off with fellow oddballs where our best selves get to evolve as teenagers. — Rainn Wilson

Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do. — Anthony Bourdain

Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else. — Sarah Thornton

Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now? Why, they are the insignificant others, of course; living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others ... And you? To what end were we billions of oddballs born? — Annie Dillard

I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters. — Alan Ball

I've found that I seek out oddballs; I like strange and eccentric people a lot. — Arthur Bradford

The one who tried too hard, the outsider, the oddball. Yeah, that was me. — Idina Menzel

I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me. — Dave Matthews

The fact of the matter is that many children see ... Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them. — Carlos Castaneda

One thing I'm working on is an episodic web series titled 'One Warm Night.' It's a kinda crazy, quirky series, filled with a lot of misfits, oddballs ... ninjas. — Justin Lee

I'm just not a guy that loves to eat. I love to work and love to work out. I think I go against all the nutritionists who say you need to do this or need to do that, so I'm one of the oddballs. — Herschel Walker

The most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci — Norman Maclean