„This is so weird. I keep expecting the truck to start sinking."
"I can't believe you just went through what we went through and you think this is weird.“

„I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.“

—  Paul McCartney English singer-songwriter and composer 1942

„What are you, in love with her?" Travis says. "You're staring like an idiot."
The weird thing is, I think I am.“

—  Alex Flinn American children's writer 1966

Source: A Kiss in Time

„Sundance is weird. The movies are weird—you actually have to think about them when you watch them.“

—  Britney Spears American singer, dancer and actress 1981

After walking out of a screening of The Singing Detective (2003) at the Sundance Film Festival; quoted in The Washington Post (31 January 2003) http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/03/r_entertainment_kempley013103.htm and other newspapers; later in TIME Magazine (10 February 2003) p. 21.

„I've been through a lot. But I think it all happened for a reason. I think what I went through made me appreciate the game even more. Even life, really. I wasn't guaranteed to be here.“

—  Frank Gore American football running back 1983

Reflecting on life and his NFL career:

„The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.“

—  Terry Pratchett English author 1948 - 2015

Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

„I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.“

—  Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

„Phil and I were never political, ever, ever, ever, our parents just told us we were Democrats because everybody in South St. Paul are Democrats. So we went through life just thinking we were Democrats, and would vote that way until our late 30s, when I basically started to Google, ‘What are you?’ I was like, "Oh my gosh, Phil, we’re Republicans."“

—  Karin Housley American politician 1964

Minnesotans Phil and Karin Housley make sports and politics mix http://www.startribune.com/minnesotans-phil-and-karin-housley-make-sports-and-politics-mix/425842693/ (June 2, 2017)

„I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.“

—  Rita Rudner American comedian 1953

„Before one goes through the gate
one may not be aware there is a gate
One may think there is a gate to go through
and look a long time for it
without finding it
One may find it and
it may not open
If it opens one may be through it
As one goes through it
one sees that the gate one went through
was the self that went through it
no one went through a gate
there was no gate to go through
no one ever found a gate
no one ever realized there was never a gate“

—  Ronald David Laing Scottish psychiatrist and author 1927 - 1989

"Although innumerable beings have been led to Nirvana no being has been led to Nirvana", §5, p. 85
Knots (1970)

„I think for it to be unhip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me had some sense of hope in them.“

—  Tom Petty American musician 1950 - 2017

Interview With Alan Bangs (1999)

„Billie and I got chased through the traffic once in a car. You expect paparazzi to do that, but when it's normal people you start to think the world's gone a bit mad.“

—  David Tennant Scottish actor 1971

Radio Times interview (April 2007) http://www.radiotimes.com/content/show-features/doctor-who/david-tennant-interview-2007/

„I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.“

—  Nicholas Sparks American writer and novelist 1965

„I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.“

—  Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963

„For a long time, the movie [Shrek] didn’t know what it wanted to be. One problem was unavoidable: Chris Farley had died, and the story had been geared around him, so when he went, the story kind of went with him. It went through an upheaval while they tried to find the right tone for it. I think they were really close to shelving the project when a few of us came into story to try and find a tone that we could work with. When Kelly Asbury moved on to Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron I became head of story, along with Randy Cartwright. Along with Andrew Adamson, who stayed on as director, we started pulling little pieces together out of what remained, and part of the way through, Jeffrey [Katzenberg] decided that I should be directing. A few months later, we started production.“

—  Vicky Jenson American animator 1960

Quoted by Michael Mallory in " Firsts Among Equals http://www.animationmagazine.net/top-stories/firsts-among-equals/", Animation Magazine (March 6th, 2014). Chris Farley was the original voice of Shrek.

„I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it.“

—  Cassandra Clare, book Clockwork Princess

Variant: Will-"
"I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and when you're this close to me, I forget who you are. I forget you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it.
Source: Clockwork Princess

„It was the building from the drawing in my brain.
And if you don’t think that’s a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it.“

—  James Patterson American author 1947

Source: The Angel Experiment

„Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured.“

—  Bram Stoker, book Dracula

Jonathan Harker
Dracula (1897)

„I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, 'If he comes, what would you do Malala?' then I would reply to myself, 'Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.' But then I said, 'If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.' Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that 'I even want education for your children as well.“

—  Malala Yousafzai Pakistani children's education activist 1997

And I will tell him, 'That's what I want to tell you, now do what you want.'
2010 -
Source: Brian Jones, " 16-Year-Old Malala Yousafzai Leaves Jon Stewart Speechless With Comment About Pacifism http://www.businessinsider.com/malala-yousafzai-left-jon-stewart-speechless-2013-10," Business Insider, Oct. 9, 2013, 9:38 PM: from an interview on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart:

„I went to the movies — it was Kanye, myself and John Mayer, and we went to see "Ray." We were watching it, and I was just inspired by the movie, just as a musician and as an artist, I felt inspired. We left there and went straight to the studio. Kanye started cooking up this beat and started doing this chant, like, "Go, go, go," and while we were sitting there thinking what to write, John Mayer said, "You could write about your fantasy." And I was like, "Am I going to let John Mayer come up with the concept for this joint? This is hip-hop." But John Mayer is a very talented brother and you don't know where your blessings are going to come from. He was singing, and we made him a sample on it, going 'Go.'“

—  Common (rapper) American rapper, actor and author from Illinois 1972

So it all came together and now we have the song 'Go!,' which is about going to my fantasy.
On working with Kanye West and John Mayer on the track "Go." (2004) ( From MTV.com http://www.mtv.com/bands/c/common/common_q_and_a_050620/)
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