Eccentric Quotes · Page 7

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

— Al McGuire

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

— Yvon Chouinard

“You can't be loony and rich. You've got to be eccentric if you're rich.”

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Rupert Everett

In my 20s, I just had to be the centre of attention all the time. I was quite eccentric.

— Derren Brown

I'm very much an easy person, and I love to work with people who have bold eccentric vision.

— Nicholas Galitzine

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

— Ian Hislop

I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.

— Ian Mckellen

I do love five-star luxury, but I also love the sort of hotels that are run by an eccentric lady with great…

— Michaela Strachan

My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Camille Flammarion

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

— Margaret Rutherford

“They were all eccentric, touched, ill-intentioned, ignorant, superstitious, avaricious, or full members of nitwitry.”

— Christina Stead

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in…

— Edith Sitwell

I consider myself a bit of an eccentric, and I relate very deeply to other people that have niche obsessions.

— John Wilson

I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will…

— Michelangelo

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals…

— Suzanne Fields

Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich…

— Michael J. Gelb

Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that…

— George Henry Lewes

It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A sober, devout man will interpret 'God's will' soberly and devoutly. A fanatic, with bloodshot mind, will interpret 'God's will' fanatically. Men…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person;…

— Robert Audi

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given…

— George Orwell

You know those people in life who are a bit eccentric and larger than life or a bit odd? That their realm…

— Alan Tudyk

Bill Veeck was a charismatic and somewhat eccentric owner-fan during the post-WWII years.

— Don Yaeger

“Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.”

— Anonymous

I try to be eccentric, but I'm cognizant of my responsibility.

— John Popper

My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught.

— Steve Young

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

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“The nice thing about getting old is that you can be as eccentric as you want, everyone expects it!”

— Nanette L. Avery

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”

— A.A. Milne

Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is…

— Ellen Terry

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

— Suzanne Collins

“I should know by now that Tremaine’s definition of eccentric is… eccentric.”

— Martha Wells

They make fun of anything.Things that I like Everything that I've got.Something which I'm not.

— Louaiq8

I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

— Imelda May

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Katy Perry

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

— Arthur Bradford

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

— Emma Forrest