Best 109 quotes in «eccentric quotes» category

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.

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

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

I have always idolized eccentric people.

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

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

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

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 know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.

My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught.

Sci-fi fans are eccentric.

Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers.

Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.

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

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

That's what being eccentric means--being natural.

The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension.

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.

There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.

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.

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.