Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it. — Osbert Lancaster Copy Share Image
Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad. — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence. — Al MacInnis Copy Share Image
I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Self-assurance doesn't come from looking perfect and having a great title, but from accepting yourself with all you mistakes and eccentricities. — Cecelie Berry Copy Share Image
“the rigorously impersonal view of science might one day appear as having been a temporarily useful eccentricity rather than the definitively triumphant… — William James Copy Share Image
This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride,… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete,… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable,… — Willie Morris Copy Share Image
“Clancy comments that the subtleties of national character can impact the world stage by making espionage more difficult. Americans were quirky by… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
“She had poofy, teased-out brown hair that bounced off her shoulders with every high-flying skip and on her t-shirt was a spiraled… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“Balzac was pretty funny. His philosophy is plain and simple, says basically that pure materialism is a recipe for madness. The only… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Yes, I advise wearing the silver gown that he sent,” he said plainly. “When one sends a gift, it is usually polite… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
“There was a time when a new deputy tried to teach Mr. Fruit about the difference between a red and a green… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles And somewhere near the middle… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
“We would never say to a man, "Be eccentric"; but if he cannot help being so, we would not have him be… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“In a famous passage, Mill explained Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, in order… — Mary Pickering Copy Share Image
“...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
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