Quotes about Eccentric

I have always idolized eccentric people. Votes: 4

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric. Votes: 4

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set. Votes: 4

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. Votes: 4

When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric. Votes: 4

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for. Votes: 4

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Votes: 4

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals. Votes: 4

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide. Votes: 4

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them. Votes: 4

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 3

Look, I promise I'm not psychotic. Eccentric and idiosyncratic, but not psychotic. (Sebastian) I'll bet the prisons are full of men who have told women that. (Channon) Votes: 3

My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric. Votes: 2

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple. Votes: 2

Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is.... Votes: 2

I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect. Votes: 2

I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives. Votes: 2

You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful. Votes: 2

I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention. Votes: 2

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. Votes: 2

My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults. Votes: 2

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric. Votes: 2

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction. Votes: 2

Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent. Votes: 2

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want. Votes: 2

I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me from my seat upon them to a lower level; therefore, I am not an inveterate lover of horseback. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think, 'This is completely normal. This is just how I am, it's how I've always been.' Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant. Votes: 2

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up. Votes: 2

It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world! Votes: 2

Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great! Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. Votes: 2

Sci-fi fans are eccentric. Votes: 0

I do some eccentric dancing. Votes: 0

Normality is the new eccentric. Votes: 0

People are quite frequently eccentric. Votes: 0

My teachers were often very eccentric. Votes: 0

That's what being eccentric means--being natural. Votes: 0

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive. Votes: 0

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric. Votes: 0

When you're rich, 'crazy' is just 'eccentric'. Votes: 0

I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric. Votes: 0

I'd rather go with something eccentric--but beautifully eccentric. Votes: 0

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side. Votes: 0

I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric! Votes: 0

I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser. Votes: 0

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric. Votes: 0

There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars. Votes: 0

Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric. Votes: 0

Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric. Votes: 0

The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric. Votes: 0

Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane. Votes: 0

I have described myself as being 'gently eccentric.' Votes: 0

My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught. Votes: 0

It's far too easy to qualify as an eccentric nowadays. Votes: 0

My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world. Votes: 0

Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest. Votes: 0

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely. Votes: 0

I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain. Votes: 0

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer. Votes: 0

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English. Votes: 0

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world. Votes: 0

It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy. Votes: 0

I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase. Votes: 0

The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo Votes: 0

Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker Votes: 0

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. Votes: 0

The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts. Votes: 0

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric. Votes: 0

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring. Votes: 0

I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me. Votes: 0

When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric. Votes: 0

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff. Votes: 0

The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate. Votes: 0

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious. Votes: 0

I've found that I seek out oddballs; I like strange and eccentric people a lot. Votes: 0

I believe that those who knew me [in my youth] took me for an eccentric. Votes: 0

My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her. Votes: 0

I may appear to be an eccentric old man... But this is a free choice. Votes: 0

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it. Votes: 0

I'm eccentric, what else? I don't know, I've got two people telling me what to say. Votes: 0

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard. Votes: 0

My parents are a wonderful mixture of bohemian eccentric, but also incredibly practical and not airy-fairy. Votes: 0

Stubborness and staunch, they are both same thingsfrom different point of view, such crazy and eccentric. Votes: 0

It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go. Votes: 0

I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England. Votes: 0

I always wanted an eccentric daughter . I just never realized how well my evil plans were working. Votes: 0

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha! Votes: 0

If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor. Votes: 0

People don't expect me to have a weird sense of humor, but I do. I'm very eccentric. Votes: 0

If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor." Votes: 0

A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment. Votes: 0

A dash of eccentric glamour gives you the power to keep the wrong kind of men away. Votes: 0

I think Björk is playing on the fact she knows she's eccentric and she accepts the fact. Votes: 0

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog. Votes: 0

The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric. Votes: 0

The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve. Votes: 0

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that. Votes: 0

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other. Votes: 0

When I'm at an event, I like to be an eccentric dresser. I will just keep wearing what I like. Votes: 0

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood. Votes: 0

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas. Votes: 0

Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express. Votes: 0

I'd rather be eccentric and artistic, than be normal and have not one inch of art flowing through my heart. Votes: 0

I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird. Votes: 0

People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric. Votes: 0

Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion. Votes: 0

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application. Votes: 0

I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course. Votes: 0

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific. Votes: 0

Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home. Votes: 0

I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric. Votes: 0

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters. Votes: 0

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Votes: 0

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) Votes: 0

Perhaps an eccentric is just off centre - ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal. Votes: 0

To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim. Votes: 0

I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life. Votes: 0

People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out. Votes: 0

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction." Votes: 0

FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit. Votes: 0

It's fun to see the light in someone's eyes. It's fun to give your own eccentric experience and have it land. That's fun. Votes: 0

My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness. Votes: 0

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do Votes: 0

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do. Votes: 0

When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration. Votes: 0

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person. Votes: 0

But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil. Votes: 0

There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can. Votes: 0

A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay. Votes: 0

You can't get a bad picture out of Bacall. There's nothing eccentric about her. She's perfect all over and yet she looks like nobody else. Votes: 0

I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing, which I do too. Votes: 0

The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society. Votes: 0

It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're eccentric because of it. Votes: 0

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a perfect place for me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky. Votes: 0

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God. Votes: 0

No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific interests. But it certainly doesn't help him a bit. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think that people like the idea that fans are sort of slightly eccentric and strange, but generally I've just found them very creative and warm and cheerful. Votes: 0

I feel like I'm back visiting an old grandmother. She's crotchety and eccentric, but also elegant, and anyone who doesn't fall in love with her has no imagination. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For young people, it doesn't matter so much, but when you're older, less is definitely more - too much make-up can give you the 'eccentric Aunt Sally' look! Votes: 0

If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people. You have to think exceptionally-a LOT! Votes: 0

I like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don't want to talk to a legitimate crazy person, because that's not nice. Votes: 0

Bizarrely, I actually feel safer the older I get, like people will expect less from me, and I can become more and more invisible, yet more and more eccentric. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share ... Votes: 0

In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that version doesn't come close to the truth. Votes: 0

You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess. Votes: 0

The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment Votes: 0

They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own. Votes: 0

The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black. Votes: 0

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors. Votes: 0

When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed me to write, more or less anything. Votes: 0

I wanted to work with those boys (producers Andy and Larry Wachowski) because they're so eccentric and peculiar. Larry, of course, is halfway towards being a woman now. It's a crazy world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists, namely eugenics. Votes: 0

I've always been interested in the rest of the world. My family is very eccentric; my parents have always been very supportive of travel and doing whatever I thought I needed to do. Votes: 0

I didn't find this memoir of these two eccentric people so different from doing my memoirs of De Sade or Simone Weil. My parents in their own way are as odd as Sade. Votes: 0

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others. Votes: 0

Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are. Votes: 0

My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths. Votes: 0

Librarians...possess a vast stone 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. Votes: 0

I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really? Votes: 0

Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right. Votes: 0

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody. Votes: 0