Eccentricity Quotes · Page 3

I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.

— Roger Ebert

Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style.

— John Scofield

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

— Andy Hargreaves

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.

— Stella Benson

I've got a bit of the eccentricity of Africa and a bit of Western calm.

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

“The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.

— Oliver Sacks

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

Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in…

— Ram Dass

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the…

— Samuel Johnson

“Don't you ever realise," said Helen, "that the way we live is unlike the way other people live?" "On the whole I…

— Penelope Lively

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something…

— Joseph Brodsky

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Eccentricity is one of those English traits that look like frailty but mask a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.”

— Ben Macintyre

Celebrate yourself. Follow your passions and eccentricities, because they are yours alone. You are unique! If everyone did that, I'm pretty sure…

— Kandyse McClure

To some extent, we all have quirks or idiosyncrasies, and some geniuses, because of how bright they are and how focused they…

— Darold Treffert

I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December…

— Robert Burns

I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite…

— John Gimlette

I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups - (a) Love of the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential…

— Paul Morley

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our…

— Teju Cole

In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion.…

— George Orwell

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear,…

— Steven Brust

“Those who think they are destined for the high offices of state, should make themselves remarkable; for if a man aspire to…

— John Galt

“[T]he two things, life style and work, have become one. Now if that’s eccentricity, then I’m eccentric.”

— Mason Currey

“Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.”

— Sara Sheridan

“. . . solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public . . . [p. 7]”

— Shirley Hazzard

“...there is a point at which eccentricity begins to impact operational effectiveness.”

— Charles Stross

“I love women more on canvas than real life, for they seldom change on canvas!” ”

— Ramana Pemmaraju

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

— Osbert Lancaster

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

— Robert Frost

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

Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

— Al MacInnis

“In life, like art, there has to be an essential sense of weirdness.”

— Jo Brunini

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it…

— Charles Saatchi

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

— George Santayana

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

— Ambrose Bierce

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

— Rachel Weisz

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

— Martin Short

There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind…

— Dar Williams