Idiosyncratic Quotes

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering. - Harold Bloom

There is a certain style of writing. I don't know how to describe it exactly. It's idiosyncratic, it's very personal. It also can be very social. It's very unsentimental, very stark sometimes, usually about the problems of daily life and sometimes the humor. These are the things, I think, that define someone who's a New York songwriter. - Suzanne Vega

The thing about laptops is that they tend to be more idiosyncratic than desktops. It's really important to be able to try a laptop in a store before you buy one. - David Heim

The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected. - Salman Rushdie

That is the way I write. Everything I write is about very serious things, but handled in a sort of idiosyncratic manner. - Phyllis Nagy

Rackham provided in each of his pictures an idiosyncratic vision of the world seen through the lenses of his own particular imagination. - Anne Alton

Off-term elections are more idiosyncratic, but they're affected by the larger political environment. You do have some demoralization among Republicans and that can mean a lower turnout. ... It's been an awful time for Republicans. - Norm Ornstein

Kitchens generally tend to recoup their cost, and bathrooms too. Those are widely appealing to the marketplace, and they tend to be more standard in form. Things that are very idiosyncratic and are customized to the homeowners' individual tastes--they don't appeal to a wider audience. - Delores Conway

Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions. i.e. When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion. - Anthony Storr