Quirky Habits Quotes

I do a lot of strange things.

When you're with your partner, I think, does everyone else sing and do the stupid voices and all that stuff that I do and always have done?

For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people's martinis --he hides these things in strange places until they are rotten. And then he eats them.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

Like everyone else, I have my quirks. For one, I have to own only black cars and the registration has to have eights. It's not something I can explain, it's just there. Another obsession I have is smell. I have to smell good all the time.

We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

My wife, like many women, actually LIKES wrapping things. If she gives you a gift that requires batteries, she wraps the batteries separately, which to me is very close to being a symptom of mental illness.

My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.

I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.

Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won't tell, I won't.

In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.

My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

Benji usually tries to match his hair with his underwear, and you know how he had the pink hair for a while well we caught him in a pink thong one day!

Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.

After 3 years, I left the army at the ripe old age of 20, but I'd like to think some of the skills are still with me. I'm great at physical movement; I can still remember Morse code, and perhaps most importantly, I can fold my socks up into little balls with smiley faces.

I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.

I feel like nowadays everybody I know has a smidge of geek in them. In other words, they have some odd niche or some obsessive tendencies.

I think everyone's a geek in some way.

I never pass a Dairy Queen without stopping. I cannot stand tucked-in sheets. I was once a contestant on 'The Price is Right.'

You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.