Best 109 quotes in «eccentric quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

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

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

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

I have always idolized eccentric people.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

I've found that I seek out oddballs; I like strange and eccentric people a lot.

I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.

I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.

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

Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.

Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker

Like I said before, I don't know how helpful Inez will be, " she explained. "She's very eccentric and controlled by her whims. If she likes you, she might tell you something. If she doesn't, well..." Ms. Terwilliger shrugged. "Then maybe we'll have time for photo ops." "Score," said Adrian. When I shot him a look, he added quickly, "But of course she'll like you.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

More than anything in this world, I wish I had been born rich. It would have made up for everything. I'd still be ugly, sure, but I'd be rich and ugly. I'd still be weak and dim and tongue-tied with women, but I'd be rich enough for them not to care. I'd no longer be a social misfit, I'd be eccentric. And most of all, I'd no longer be what I was, I'd be something different.

My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.

My music has a high irritation factor. I`ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was is joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccetricity to the bland.

People don't expect me to have a weird sense of humor, but I do. I'm very eccentric.