My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“He was not a practical joker nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“I suppose I'm what they call a decadent, one whose spirit is outwardly defined by those sad glimmers of artificial eccentricity that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The Brits always favor the underdog. There's an eccentricity to us, and I think you can see that through the fash- ion… — Guido Palau Copy Share Image
Mêmewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
“To the extent that self-expression does broadcast and reinforce a person's character, it clarifies a link between art, eccentricity, and mental illness.… — Alice Weaver Flaherty 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
I’m one of those very lucky people who absolutely love what they do for a living. There is no career better suited… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
“If you feel unheard or unnoticed, then your divine assignment requires you to go against the grain and set forth your own… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
To me, you couldn't write a character like J. Edgar Hoover and have it be believable. I mean, he was a crock… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
“Always wise aunts come in many guises. There are maiden aunts, dowager aunts, and that delightful creature, the eccentric aunt. I fear… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The good thing about New Orleans is that, overall, it's an accepting place. It's accepting of eccentricity, it's accepting of excess, it's… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
“Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or performed any… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“It was as if she had been made afresh out of new elements, and must perforce be permitted to live her own… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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