Best 109 quotes in «eccentric quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I have always idolized eccentric people.

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

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

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 know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught.

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.

Sci-fi fans are eccentric.

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