Best 109 quotes in «eccentric quotes» category

It seems that, depending upon which side of the thesaurus-writer’s gaze we sit, one’s uniqueness can be deemed to be either eccentric or distinctive. Both, in my opinion, are good.

It occurred to me almost constantly in the South that had I lived there I would have been an eccentric and full of anger, and I wondered what form the anger would have taken. Would I have taken up causes, or would I have simply knifed somebody?

My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.

Playing safe, hiding among the masses, will rarely get you noticed.

She would be quirky, and I would be stolid, and our relationship, if launched, would embark on an eccentric path, and our days would be lively. But I wasn't expected to take such nonsense seriously, was I?

My beauty is my eccentricity, when I am out people stare at me and speak, look at that creative guy, unique guy, different guy.

My approach is different. My mistakes are conscious mistakes. And I learn more than those I despise way too often than those I admire.

Stephen Tennant is the most sparkling talker who ever comes to my house, and perhaps the most amusing. He dances like the will-o'-the-wisp where other people stick in the mud. Though his really kindred spirits are the most exotic people he can find, he also greatly enjoys a talk with some extremely commonplace person, when he pretends that he thinks they mean something which they never thought of in their lives. He can be by turns poetic, malicious, and nonsensical. His talk is very pictorial and he handles words as if they were pait on a brush. When Stephen is alone with one friend he is often drawn to speak of very grave and profound subjects, and then he becomes unhappy, for he is never sure about what he loves and believes in, and would like to love and believe in so much.

The difference between nuts and eccentric is about a million dollars, I hear.

Stubborness and staunch, they are both same things from different point of view, such crazy and eccentric.

The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts.

The pieces didn't really coordinate and could be described in no other way than 'eclectic', but once labeled 'eclectic', valuable mismatches generally become fantastically stylish. Very similar to the way adding cash value to 'crazy' results in a whimsical 'eccentric'; you have to buy more flattering adjectives.

The world is a strange place for humans like me, we don't really belong anywhere but we fit everywhere. We carry a depth, thay most get high to reach - we're busy creating magic whilst half the world is building wars.

Uniqueness is like a signature, nobody can forge it's exact copy.

The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.

Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.

Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.

As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

The world is filled with heroes and wannabes, so let me just play the villain.

Wszyscy archeolodzy są ekscentrykami. Normalnych nie ma. Nie wiem, z czego to wynika. Praca jest dość oryginalna, może przyciąga takich właśnie ludzi. Ale faktem jest, że w niewielu grupach zawodowych jest tylu dziwaków, co wśród archeologów. I to dziwaków wybitnych.

You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.

An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.

I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.

I always wanted an eccentric daughter . I just never realized how well my evil plans were working.

I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.

I have always idolized eccentric people.

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.

I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.

I love exaggerated, and I love eccentric, but you must be comfortable. Otherwise it is nonsense. There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.

Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.

I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very few conventions. I'm quite willing to be that eccentric who has a very odd job, quite happy to be the only science fiction writer in town.

I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane or masochistic and worse than a loser.

In training, don't be afraid to be an oddball, eccentric, or extremist. Only by daring to go against tradition can new ways of training be learned. The trick is recognizing quickly when a new approach is counterproductive.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, Im kind of astonished because I think, This is completely normal. This is just how I am, its how Ive always been.

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.