Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
I like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don't want to talk to a legitimate… — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
“Stroller was eccentric, no doubt, but I’m one of those people for whom eccentric were made. I’m an appreciator of the offbeat” — Dominique Browning Copy Share Image
The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him,… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something… — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting… — Philip French Copy Share Image
Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“What's the difference between eccentric and crazy?' She lifted her hands above her head, tapped her zills together, and danced out the… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I was a high school student like Picasso. I was a little eccentric, but I had high ideals. I wanted to get… — Usamaru Furuya Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still… — Brian May Copy Share Image
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I have very non-eccentric hobbies. I like to read, to have dinner with friends, and junk out on TV like everybody else. — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people–people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people.… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight /… — Kenji Miyazawa Copy Share Image
I love exaggerated, and I love eccentric, but you must be comfortable. Otherwise it is nonsense. There is nothing charming about a… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing… — Daniel Breaker Copy Share Image
When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen,… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“My beauty is my eccentricity, when I am out people stare at me and speak, look at that creative guy, unique guy,… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with… — Louise Jameson Copy Share Image
They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts… — Al McGuire Copy Share Image
People do call her eccentric, moody but with me she has always been the same. I always talk about love with Rekha. — Randhir Kapoor Copy Share Image
There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
“You can drink your soup ice-cold, but it's no longer soup; you can do eccentric things in life, but if you haven't… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet… — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
“I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.” — Lori R. Lopez Copy Share Image
No matter how extreme I've had to be, no matter how eccentric people perceive me to be, because I'm outside the norms,… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
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