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source: "Ed Sheeran Gives Inspiring, Irreverent Speech on Stuttering: 'Embrace Your Weirdness'" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 9, 2015.

topic: Being Yourself, Embrace, Quirks

I started out as an impressionist and that’s all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

- Eddie Murphy

source: FaceBook post by Eddie Murphy from Feb 01, 2014

topic: Attitude, Moving, Voice, Impressionists, Quirks

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Music, Dance, Light, Quirks, Dance Music

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Friendship, Old Friends, Strange, Quirks

The only way to come to a full acceptance and understanding of yourself is to embrace your own culture, quirks and differences while learning about those around you and exploring, incorporating and embracing their cultures, differences, quirks, etcetera.

- Toks Olagundoye

source: Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

topic: Acceptance, Differences, Understanding, Etcetera, Quirks

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

- Roald Dahl

topic: Childhood, Secret, Complicated, Quirks

Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

- Louis L'Amour

topic: Today, Tomorrow, Chakra, Quirks, Heredity

I notice a lot of people think they can solve their problems with antidepressants. That, I noticed, being like a bigger issue, like, it really strips people of who they are. Like, all your quirks and all your problems, even your depressions and your failures, that's what makes you, you. And there's a lot of drugs out there that will take that away from you.

- Gerard Way

topic: Thinking, Issues, People, Antidepressants, Quirks

I take comfort in knowing that it was the shepherds to whom the angels appeared when they announced Christ's birth. Invariably throughout the course of history, God has appeared to people on the fringes. It's nice to find theological justification for your quirks.

- Rich Mullins

topic: Nice, Angel, Knowing, Quirks

It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.

- Napoleon Hill

source: Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.64, Penguin

topic: Opportunity, People, Problem, Quirks

Everyone loves characters that are relatable or who have unique quirks or tragic flaws.

- Joe Madureira

source: "'Darksiders' Joe Madureira talks death, war, and comics". Interview with Jason Cipriano, www.mtv.com. April 15, 2012.

topic: Character, Unique, Flaws, Relatable, Quirks

We each have our hiding places and we each put up with the little quirks of the people we love.

- Cecelia Ahern

topic: People, Littles, Hiding, Quirks

One of the ways we reflect God's love and bring him glory is to accept each other just as he accepts us. This means we accept others' quirks and look past their faults in order to see a person created in the image of God.

- Rick Warren

topic: Christian, Mean, Past, God Image, Quirks

The economy and its dismal status is the result of policy decisions that Obama has made and put into place. It's not the quirk of fate. It's not that America's best days are over. It's not that America's past was a fad or a quirk. It's not that the great economic days of the eighties were illegitimate or unreal. It's not that this is the new normal. It's not that all of the greatness in the past was undeserved. It is precisely because of Obama policies implemented since 2009 that this country is in the shape it's in.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Country, Fate, Past, Quirks, New Normal

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'

- Joshua Foer

topic: Knights, Language, Century, Democratic Process, Irregularity

There is a thin line between the policeman and the criminal. The best cops are always crossed. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.

- William Friedkin

source: Source: www.movieweb.com

topic: Fate, Thinking, Lines, Quirks

The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'

- Eric Sevareid

topic: Jobs, People, Calling, Quirks

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: College, Views, Imagination, Overactive Imaginations, Quirks

Every good girl loved a bad boy. It was a fact of life, a quirk of nature. Opposites attract, and the badder the boy, the more attractive he was to that good girl who couldn't help but be drawn to him.

- Lora Leigh

source: Lora Leigh (2015). “Too Hot to Touch: Three Breeds Novellas”, p.131, Penguin

topic: Girl, Boys, Opposites, Opposites Attract, Quirks

Don't think that there's a different, better child 'hiding' behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you. Encourage his strengths, celebrate his quirks, and improve his weaknesses, the way you would with any child.

- Claire LaZebnik

topic: Children, Thinking, Autism, Quirks, Children With Autism

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

- V. S. Naipaul

topic: Writing, Documentation, Details, Quirks

Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election!

- Ashwin Sanghi

topic: Fate, Winning, Awards, Quirks, Exhilarating

Enya never writes a bad melody. That's first and foremost her secret. As she goes along, she'll start changing the dynamics, pushing here and there so that not everything is perfectly in unison. It adds a texture you can acquire only from having different voices. The variations lead to interesting quirks. It's an integral part of the Enya sound.

- Nicky Ryan

topic: Writing, Voice, Interesting, Different Voices, Quirks

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

- Frances Mayes

topic: Southern, Speech, Metaphor, Quirks, Hyperbole

So acknowledge here to yourself, ‘I am unique, and while there may be someone who is better than me at this or that, it doesn’t matter because they’re not me. So no matter what, they’ll never do it like me because that’s impossible.’ So embrace the quirks, embrace your individuality, embrace where you are in life. No one else is like you, and that is special, and that is unique.

- Kathryn Budig

topic: Unique, Individuality, Special, Quirks, Where You Are In Life

It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.

- Susanna Kaysen

topic: Profound, Portraits, Driving, Quirks, Binge

I think that when people start hanging around each other, they start to pick on on each other's quirks and taste in music, apparently.

- Nina Dobrev

topic: Thinking, People, Taste In Music, Hanging Around, Quirks

You're watching us and you don't realize how much makeup and how much lighting is involved when we look good. We have a lot of help where we are. I don't think that it's healthy for young girls to be looking at these beauty magazines and watching TV and these shows and thinking [that's the standard] there's more European attitude - you look at French film, Spanish film, they're a little more open to quirks and human nature. That we're not all symmetrical, not all the same shape we need more of that.

- Natalie Dormer

source: "Birdseed boobs and babies: Highlights from the Women Who Kick Ass Comic-Con panel" by Katie Hasty, uproxx.com. July 27, 2014.

topic: Girl, Attitude, Makeup, Symmetrical, Quirks

I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [262]

topic: Men, Thinking, Careers, Quirks, Quip

No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both. It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy

- Kay Redfield Jamison

topic: Unique, Profound, Owing, Quirks

I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.

- Lisa Unger

source: Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.69, Crown

topic: Girl, Sexy, Kindness, Pick Yourself Up, Kindness For Weakness

One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

topic: Wine, Bisexual, Thoughtful, Quirks

He was in blue jeans and a work shirt, which is another weird quirk of Rich Old Men. Just one of the guys here. Blue jeans and a work shirt, salt of the earth, working man like yourself. Like they're somehow uncomfortable about being rich enough to sleep in a bed made of vaginas being pulled around the town at night by a fleet of gold-covered midgets.

- Warren Ellis

topic: Sleep, Night, Men, Working Man, Midget

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

topic: Basketball, Cheating, Thinking, Quirks

No. Haven’t you been listening?” Marcus would always remember that moment. It was to be the first time he would ever be faced with that most vexing of female quirks: the question that had nothing but wrong answers.

- Julia Quinn

source: FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Sep 04, 2014

topic: Listening, Female, Wrong Answers, Quirks

When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurological, and the fierce warrior spirit of the heart. The body had rules and it had quirks.

- Libba Bray

source: Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Beautiful, Heart, Warrior, Warrior Spirit, Quirks

Tessa, surprising herself, let out a gasp of laughter. Will looked at her, his mouth just beginning to quirk up in a grin. "I must be more amusing than I thought. Which would make me very amusing indeed.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.666, Simon and Schuster

topic: Laughter, Mouths, Amusing, Quirks

Acceptance. We want someone to look at us, and really see us—our physical flaws, our personality quirks, our insecurities. And we want them to be okay with every square inch of who we are. We’re always afraid we might be too needy or too much work. We put all these limitations on ourselves and our relationships because we’re afraid that we’re not really loved. That we’re not really accepted. We hide little pieces of ourselves because we think that might be the one thing that finally drives away the person who’s supposed to love us.

- Michele Bardsley

source: Michele Bardsley (2010). “Cross Your Heart: A Broken Heart Novel”, p.148, Penguin

topic: Acceptance, Thinking, Squares, Quirks, Too Much Work

The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties

- Fernand Braudel

source: Fernand Braudel (1982). “Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce”, p.446, Univ of California Press

topic: Fashion, Degrees, Economics, Quirks, French Fashion

For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical correctitude sometimes proves easier to urge than to achieve. Among the errors cited in this book are a number committed by some of the leading authorities of this century. If men such as Fowler and Bernstein and Quirk and Howard cannot always get their English right, is it reasonable to expect the rest of us to?

- Bill Bryson

topic: Book, Writing, Men, Quirks, English Grammar

Because the demands on the goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself. Not a puck, not a opponent, not a quirk of size or style. The stress and anxiety he feels when he plays, the fear of failing, the fear of being embarrassed, the fear of being physically hurt, all symptoms of his position, in constant ebb and flow, but never disappearing. The successful goalie understands these neuroses, accept them, and put them under control. The unsuccessful goalie is distracted by them, his mind in knots. His body quickly follows.

- Ken Dryden

topic: Hurt, Stress, Mean, Stress And Anxiety, Goalies

And now we're apart and you're just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn't make sense.

- Gaby Dunn

topic: Life, Secret, Flaws, Quirks

There is such a thing as genius, and these are people who do not have a formal disability, DSM-IV-type. They may have liberal eccentricities or quirks in their personality, but they don't rise to the level of a disability.

- Darold Treffert

source: "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

topic: People, Personality, Genius, Quirks

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