Quotes About Freaks

#1. This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying ... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice ... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks ... but nobody loved it.

Alfred Bester

#2. Religion has always been an irrelevant aspect if my life. The people here are either pissed of atheists, or religious freaks waiting for God to save them.

Alina Baker

#3. Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile. She wondered why she, who had such difficulty talking about herself with people of flesh and blood, could blithely reveal her most intimate secrets to a bunch of completely unknown freaks on the Internet.

Stieg Larsson

#4. For all karaoke freaks around the nation, "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is one of those sacred anthems. It's the kind of song that announces, "Dearly beloved, we have so totally gathered here today.

Rob Sheffield

#5. Arakawa: I'd follow three simple rules: 1) Never go within two kilometres of circus freaks. 2) Never go near the butcher shop in Dublith. 3) Always spend under 300 sen on snacks. That ought to keep me alive!

Hiromu Arakawa

#6. We were the neoromantic dance freaks of the eighties, proudly displaying our blow-dried mullets. Among us, you also found the stud-bracelet-wearing punk rockers with sky-high Mohawks. Pastel-colored, shoulder-padded fashion met ripped-jeans-and-leather-jacket anti-fashion.

Gudjon Bergmann

#7. The attire, before and now:

When it fits you, it feels you.
When they see you, you seize them.

But, today,

When it fits you, it freaks you.
When they see you, they cease you.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#8. I'd like to see fashion slow down a bit. What freaks me out about fashion today is the speed - the speed of consuming, the speed of ideas. When fashion moves so fast, it takes away something I always loved, which is the idea that fashion should be slightly elusive. Hard to grasp, hard to find.

Raf Simons

#9. It always freaks me out when I go to a sushi place and there's a Mexican.

Chelsea Handler

#10. Just as London is not one endless afternoon tea, L.A. isn't all super-fit, health food-crazy freaks.

Suki Waterhouse

#11. From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

Christopher Moore

#12. I feel like Superbad and Freaks And Geeks are somewhat timeless. That's always gratifying, when you feel like 30 years in the future, people will still get it, and it won't seem creaky. It won't come across like The Incredible Mr. Limpet.

Judd Apatow

#13. You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don't need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.

Greg Behrendt

#14. I feel like most creative people are total freaks.

Zoe Kravitz

#15. It was just the two of us, inside there with just mirrors, all the way around us. Everywhere we looked, there were these two freaks, sitting at a table, eyeballing each other

Christian Bale

#16. I was joking with isabelle about vampires right before it happened. just trying to make her laugh, you know? what freaks out jewish vanpires? silver stars of david? chopped liver? check for eighteen dollars?

Cassandra Clare

#17. Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

Helen Fielding

#18. A shiver ran through me. Freaks looked almost human
and weren't. They had lesions on their skin, razor-sharp teeth, and claws instead of fingernails. I'd heard you could detect them by smell, though in the tunnels, that could be hard.

Ann Aguirre

#19. I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.

Dakota Johnson

#20. I hate the sound of my voice. I can hear it from a mile away - it's nasally. Why do I talk like that? It freaks me out!

Kaley Cuoco

#21. The past was just a place where uncontrolled freaks you had never consciously decided to include in your life entered it anyway and staggered around, breaking things.

Alexandra Kleeman

#22. Welcome to Aureus, land of illegal freaks. Have some torture and tea while you're here.

Lydia Kang

#23. This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.

Michael Swanwick

#24. In the early days, I just got lucky. I would audition for everything and just happen to land in something pretty respectable, like 'Freaks and Geeks,' my first job, which was a complete fluke.

Lizzy Caplan

#25. We're freaks, that's all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that's all. We're the tattooed lady, and we're never going to have a minute's peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too.

J.D. Salinger

#26. If you're going to worry about anything, Gideon, it should be me . Because I can't be rational when it comes to you. I'm crazy about you. Literally. I can't think about a future without you - it freaks me out.

Sylvia Day

#27. Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.

Joanne Harris

#28. Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.

Liv Tyler

#29. New York is the one place in the world that actively encourages rudeness, because that's the only way to get past the fake bag carriers, homeless people, newspaper thieves, Jesus freaks, and everyone else who wants something and isn't afraid to ask for it, repeatedly, at close range.

Gene Doucette

#30. Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

Fiona Apple

#31. My first pilot gig, in fact my first job in television, was 'Freaks and Geeks,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the single most formative of my directing life.

Jake Kasdan

#32. He's a freak. Just like me. Just like all those Kane-a-nites out there! And you know what, Freaks are cool!

Kane

#33. But, what if?
Hadn't we wondered as little girls if we were the only ones with the ability? Were we the only freaks? Were we the abnormal among the normal looking for the abnormal to become the normal?
I raced back to my room.

Michelle Flick

#34. What kind of freaks are they? Katelyn thought as they continued to circle her. Is this some result of banjo inbreeding?

Nancy Holder

#35. I've had a couple of ghost experiences, but I'm not a big fan of the spiritual side of things, of the ghost type thing. I don't know why, maybe it freaks me out a bit, or I'm more into tangible, physical beings rather than things that can pass through walls.

Rhys Darby

#36. I'm surrounded by freaks. Am I weirder than the rest of them? Ultimately I've learned to pride myself on being quirky.

Karen Elson

#37. If you can get with the freaks, then we want you here.

Sarah Liss

#38. They were blind to a cold fact of evolution ... that progress stems from the clashing merger of antagonistic extremes, out of the marriage of pinnacle freaks.

Alfred Bester

#39. You ever tasted a smell? It's a very strange feeling. I've done it quite a few times and it still freaks me out.

Corey Taylor

#40. So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.

Helen McCrory

#41. I don't even have voice mail, and people get all out of shape about that. But, you know what, I don't want to transcribe your message; I want to talk to you. And that kind of freaks people out a bit. They go, 'Oh, who has time to talk?' and I'm like, 'Well, I'm gonna make time.'

Anita Baker

#42. Watching it all, I had a panic attack.
Holy shit! Most of the Thirld World sees America through the actions of backpackers. They're our diplomats in places like this. Our grungy kissingers. These folks must think we're all drawstring pant-wearing, Hacky-Sacking, white Rasta freaks. We're doomed.

Franz Wisner

#43. We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last!

Stewart Brand

#44. I'm one of the
freaks, the faggots,
the geeks, the savages,
rogues, rebels, dissident devils,
artists, martyrs, infidels ...
do we sit still
under attack?
or do we start pushing back?
never back up
never back down
& FIGHT.

Otep Shamaya

#45. Exercise freaks ... are the ones putting stress on the health care system.

Rush Limbaugh

#46. I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

Lady Gaga

#47. I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.

Kate Beckinsale

#48. 'Freaks and Geeks' was my favorite show when it was on, by a wide measure. And that's the show I wanted to do. I noodled with the idea of doing a show about teenagers that told small stories, small moments of personal growth.

Rob Thomas

#49. What an excellent tool the internet is for freaks.

Stieg Larsson

#50. Everybody freaks out at some point. It's how you patch yourself up that counts.

Jessica Spotswood

#51. Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.

Aimee Mann

#52. My theory on Jenks: The guys look really good from afar, but once they come up to our table they are jacked hideous. It reminds me of the aquarium next door to Jenks, where it's just good to look. The moment you tap on the glass and make them come to you, it just freaks you out.

JWoww

#53. Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it's no longer the sideshow, it's the whole show. The colorful circus and the clowns and the elephants, for all intents and purposes, are gone, and we're dealing only with the freaks.

Jonathan Winters

#54. Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.

P.G. Wodehouse

#55. For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.

Adam McKay

#56. I might be capable of making figures that have heart, conscience, passion, emotion and decency. But there's no call for that at all in the world. People are only interested in monsters and freaks, so I give them their monsters. Monsters are what they want!

Joseph Roth

#57. People who dislike budging from their homes or walking beyond their own backyards
and they are always and everywhere in the majority
treat Herodotus' sort, fundamentally unconnected to anyone or anything, as freaks, fanatics, lunatics even.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#58. Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education.

James Morcan

#59. It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.

James Patterson

#60. I remember being unbelievable bummed when 'Freaks and Geeks' was canceled.

Bill Hader

#61. Woodwork creaks and out come the freaks, eh?

Ian Rankin

#62. You okay? Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.

Holly Black

#63. I want to fall in love, I think. I've never. I know. Everyone I know's been in love or in relationships now and ... There's only ever been ... there's been people telling me they love me, but it freaks me out and I just run, run. I think I'm a bad girlfriend.

Cara Delevingne

#64. From Bourbon Street to Baton Rouge, the freaks come out at night in Louisiana. And nowhere are they more raucous and unnerving than at Tiger Stadium.

Pat Forde

#65. It's not acting like an ass that bothers me, it's that I act like an ass while being completely convinced that I'm suave and sexy that freaks me out.

Tim Hall

#66. It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don't know the name of that fear, but I know I've got it, the fear of the unknown.

Carrie Jones

#67. Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don't know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.

Kacey Musgraves

#68. We're all freaks sometimes, Melody," he replied. "You're just ... well, better at it than most.

Brandon Sanderson

#69. All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.

Stellan Skarsgard

#70. For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.

John Steinbeck

#71. In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.

Salman Rushdie

#72. Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#73. Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television?

Caitlin Moran

#74. The gays, the kids, the misfits, the freaks, the ones who feel like they don't have a place... you got it. Just be you.

Michelle Visage

#75. The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

Lorna Luft

#76. They filled our world with weapons aimed at foreheads and smiled as they shot 16 candles right through our future. They killed those strong enough to fight back and locked up the freaks who failed to live up to their utopian expectations.

Tahereh Mafi

#77. Everybody is fucked up and we are all freaks in our own ways-Agent Reed

C.J. Roberts

#78. Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#79. In a weird way, 'Veronica Mars' was my reaction to 'Freaks and Geeks' because 'Freaks and Geeks' was the show I wanted to write, the one I wanted to create, where there was no gimmick; you didn't have to have a teenage private eye. It was just these beautiful small stories about real kids.

Rob Thomas

#80. Me, I trust people who show you what freaks they are. It's the ones who blend in that ya gotta watch out for.

Hope Larson

#81. Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

Thomas McGuane

#82. I know this freaks you out. And it should probably freak me out too. But it doesn't. It feels right. You and I feel right. So stay with me for just tonight. I promise to return you home in one piece, both inside and out. Can I have this? Just tonight?

Rachel Higginson

#83. No Scrabble. More and more of his friends were playing it now, in a knowing ironic way, triple-word-score-craving freaks, but it seemed to him like a game designed expressly to make him feel stupid and bored.

David Nicholls

#84. Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks

Bernardine Dohrn

#85. And that's the most horrible thing about censorship: To avoid falling afoul of the censors, we question ourselves and censor ourselves and make a big deal out of things in our heads. We do the work of the control freaks for them, out of a desire to avoid them.

G.R. Reader

#86. At least have the decency in you / To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out / In the streets when I'm eating or feeding my daughter

Eminem

#87. Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,
shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

#88. Because they're parents. It's in the job description. Must drive minivans. Must be immune to fashion. Must be freaks.

Sarah Ockler

#89. We just want to identify the "real" freaks, so we can feel closer to normal. In reality, not a single one of us is so magically normative as to claim the right to separate out the freaks from everyone else. We are all freaks to someone. Maybe even - if we're honest - to ourselves.

Kate Bornstein

#90. It freaks me out to stare at myself, especially my eyes, and know all those things I've been thinking inside

Carolyn Mackler

#91. The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks ... Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in prison, two have gone insane from untreated venereal disease, and one writes book reviews.

Tim Dorsey

#92. Thanks to a vampire and a boatload of freaks and an invading alien horde, I'm Human again.

Peter Watts

#93. You're so charming you make us forget that you have to be a serial killer on the inside to do what you do to us. Put us in your plays, warts and all, showing us off like we're some sort of sideshow freaks.

Lauren Groff

#94. I just wish I could walk into my Senator's office and say, "Senator Dude, Um, we have a problem with these sicko scientists ... "
But then again, I don't think we have a Senator, do we? Is there a state where mutant freaks are represented? If so, let me know.

James Patterson

#95. We are all freaks in the show of life.

Irene Margarida Melo

#96. The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely, liberals, conservatives, radicals, reactionaries, freaks, and middle-class straights.

Russell Kirk

#97. It's one of my biggest internal struggles - the whole schooling system in London and the fact that my kids are going to a posh school. It freaks me out.

Stella McCartney

#98. There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of a New York steak.

Gael Greene

#99. Every day I do something that freaks me out.

Gail Porter

#100. It was an age of freaks, monsters, and grotesques. All the world was misshapen in marvelous and malevolent ways.

Alfred Bester