“...there is a point at which eccentricity begins to impact operational effectiveness.” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“I love women more on canvas than real life, for they seldom change on canvas!” ” — Ramana Pemmaraju Copy Share Image
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. — Martin Short Copy Share Image
There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people. — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
“[T]he two things, life style and work, have become one. Now if that’s eccentricity, then I’m eccentric.” — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When I look at my clothes, I think of them as an expression of the joy and fun of fashion - with… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our… — Chris Rose Copy Share Image
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate… — John Noble Copy Share Image
“If all the eccentricities and all the strangenesses in this world suddenly disappear, people will fall asleep from the boredom! Every kind… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star… — Yvonne Rainer Copy Share Image
“Those who think they are destined for the high offices of state, should make themselves remarkable; for if a man aspire to… — John Galt Copy Share Image
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear,… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should… — John Grier Hibben Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Luxury means that you show the way you dress with eccentricity. — Alessandro Michele Copy Share Image
“. . . solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public . . . [p. 7]” — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image