Best 109 quotes in «eccentric quotes» category

The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.

When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

You know, I am kind of a bi-polarish schitzerphrenic. I run the gamut of being incredibly shy and withdrawn to being a crazy-eccentric exhibitionist. And I have always been like that.

Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an unmelodious verse: When the world shall cease to wonder At the genius of an Ass, And a boy's eccentric blunder Shall not bring success to pass: When mankind shall be delivered From the clash of magazines, And the inkstand shall be shivered Into countless smithereens: When there stands a muzzled stripling, Mute, beside a muzzled bore: When the Rudyards cease from Kipling And the Haggards Ride no more.

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.

You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena) That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace)

Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own

An empty canvas is the safest addiction in the world, art is the only drug that won't kill you, instead it'll save your life.

Eccentric is a nice word to replace 'weird' and 'crazy', which you can use when you really like someone.

A good joke doesn’t necessarily need appreciation from others. One can freely laugh at one’s own deserving jokes.

Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.

Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.

I am a traditionalist; proud to be eccentric; delighted to be different.

I’m eccentric, yes, but I’m not insane.

I like ethics." The question of morality, how and why do people behave in certain ways. "And the principle of knowledge." I continue, "I've read this one." I show him On Certainty (book) by Ludwig Wittgenstein wrapped in my hand. "An intelligent one, that is, though, modern mind rarely appreciates such kind of writing. Not any more. I studied philosophy myself, and you know what I think? Every branch of knowledge needs philosophy for it helps to organise the flow of ideas and articulate meanings. I could not agree more to that. "Do you think it will be deserted one day?" "Probably. Nobody will bother about it any more, just like history. What is the only thing people become more interested in nowadays?" he asks. "Making money." His thumb rubs repeatedly over the tip of the index finger. "Philosophy and history are considered as eccentric. They don't usually offer people high income, and that's the inexorable reality. We've got to deal with it anyhow.

Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an obsessive, paranoid personality, with Asperger’s syndrome, a bad stutter, unstable moods, and episodes of psychotic mania and depression. But now he’s subject to Harvard’s speech codes that prohibit any “disrespect for the dignity of others”; any violations will get him in trouble with Harvard’s Inquisition (the ‘Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion’). Newton also wants to publish Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, to explain the laws of motion governing the universe. But his literary agent explains that he can’t get a decent book deal until Newton builds his ‘author platform’ to include at least 20k Twitter followers – without provoking any backlash for airing his eccentric views on ancient Greek alchemy, Biblical cryptography, fiat currency, Jewish mysticism, or how to predict the exact date of the Apocalypse. Newton wouldn’t last long as a ‘public intellectual’ in modern American culture. Sooner or later, he would say ‘offensive’ things that get reported to Harvard and that get picked up by mainstream media as moral-outrage clickbait. His eccentric, ornery awkwardness would lead to swift expulsion from academia, social media, and publishing. Result? On the upside, he’d drive some traffic through Huffpost, Buzzfeed, and Jezebel, and people would have a fresh controversy to virtue-signal about on Facebook. On the downside, we wouldn’t have Newton’s Laws of Motion.

I'd rather be eccentric and artistic, than be normal and have not one inch of art flowing through my heart.

I guess if you’re smart enough, you can do and say what you like and people just call you eccentric. It’s like being old.” “Or rich,” Alex said.

I’m a classic eccentric, living at the extremes of high mania and low mood. There’s no middle ground, only madness and sadness.

In Science don't confound Normal static electricity To ecstatic eccentricity. Here is what I found: Electric charges As they rise up your hair In contrast with a discharge, Rarity leaves you up in the air!

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?

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?

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.