Eccentric Quotes by J. D. Souther, Graham Elliot, Dorian Yates, Jon Stewart, Marjorie Benton Cooke, Annette Bening and many others.
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 seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can’t conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.
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 I run the gamut of being incredibly shy and withdrawn to being a crazy-eccentric exhibitionist.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.
It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people’s perceptions of you that you’re able to be the version of yourself that you’re supposed to be – like in God‘s eyes. It doesn’t matter if you’re half crazy, or eccentric, or whatever it is – that you have to be true to who you were born to be.
In Britain, British history is naturally a mainstream subject. Step outside your own narrow specialism, and you can find yourself treading on someone else‘s toes. But in America, British history is an eccentric, minority pursuit, and while this can be intellectually isolating, it also permits extraordinary freedom.
I’ve worn a lot of humdingers in my time, but as a model it’s my duty – my responsibility – to bring life to any garment. That can be challenging when it comes to high fashion, where the creations can be very eccentric, but I’ve gained a reputation for being the go-to girl who can pull it off.
Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
I was an eccentric teenager in suburban New Jersey, in a town mostly interested in sports, popularity, and clothes. A fan of Jorge Luis Borges, I found a group of Borges scholars from Aarhus, Denmark – perfect strangers – whom I connected to online and immediately became enthralled by the idea of virtual communities.
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.
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.
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 was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.
There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.
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.
Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.
I’m convinced England‘s overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity’s normal in England.
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.
While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.
I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues – or by almost anybody. And that is, we’re running out of everything.
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.
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?
Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist‘s career.
You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles; which has sometimes won me the reputation of an eccentric.
I had such a warped self-image. And I really think America thought I was an eccentric loudmouth. I thought I was demure.
I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.
My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.
If you’re poor and you do something stupid, you’re nuts. If you’re rich and do something stupid, you’re eccentric.
I first got online in the late ‘80s when I was an eccentric teenager in suburban New Jersey, in a town mostly interested in sports, popularity, and clothes. I was a reader, into Jorge Luis Borges, and I found, connected to, and delighted in a group of Borges scholars from Aarhus, Denmark, that I met online.
Anybody talented in any way – they’re called eccentric.
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.
I do some eccentric dancing.
I always found that the more extreme and the more eccentric I was, that’s what would separate me. I always felt that I needed that separation; otherwise, I’d just be like everybody else.
I shouldn’t be called eccentric. I should be called a normal guy.
I’m eccentric, what else? I don’t know, I’ve got two people telling me what to say.
I like actors who are sort of different and eccentric – not what you expect.
I think BjГ¶rk is playing on the fact she knows she’s eccentric and she accepts the fact.
Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.
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.
I’m an eccentric English actor, and there’s a lot of us around.
If people weren’t watching, I’d be so much more eccentric. I know it makes me sound weak, but rather than make myself happy and wear the silly hat and say, ‘Oh, I don’t care,’ I actually really don’t feel like getting made fun of. So I put on something boring and navy and go out and try to disappear.
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.
Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you’re just mad.
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.
A free society cherishes nonconformity.
It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric,
have come many of the great ideas.
It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric,
have come many of the great ideas.
I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.
The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. – James Shin Hoo
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.
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.
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.
My teachers were often very eccentric.
Higgins: I’m an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants. An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, Who likes to live his life, free of strife Doing whatever he thinks is best for him, Well, just an ordinary man
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.
I grew up with my dad. He was very eccentric. I had zero supervision in New York. It’s kind of like I was an orphan.
I think guitar is the best thing in the world.
In my 20s, I just had to be the centre of attention all the time. I was quite eccentric.
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
If you hide, you won’t find the eccentric people who will be your best friends.
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.
The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.
It’s celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
It’s great hearing stories of my mum growing up in Brooklyn, then moving to Florida, having me and growing up with this eccentric, fun family. Although I don’t eat a lot of Italian things, because I’m vegan. I was raised on meat and cheese, so I’ve had enough for anyone‘s normal life span.
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.
Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do
With the possible exception of steampunk aficionados, many reasonable people must view my fascination with Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction – mysteries, fantasy, and adventure – as eccentric or merely antiquarian.
You know those people in life who are a bit eccentric and larger than life or a bit odd? That their realm of possibility around them is larger than somebody who’s called normal? What’s normal for an oddball? They could start screaming in public. That’s fun to play.
For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.
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.
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
People do call her eccentric, moody but with me she has always been the same. I always talk about love with Rekha.