It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.

“Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary.”

— Jenny Holzer

“Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.”

— Anonymous

“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the…

— Edith Sitwell

“Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.”

— Amit Kalantri

I guess weve got this grand tradition of sort of English eccentrics. Over there youve got artists like Lady Gaga youve got some really…

— Florence And The Machine

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.

— Louise Erdrich

“Are you committed to having a really strange life?" She laughed. "Probably. What do you mean?”

— Elizabeth Mckenzie

We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas.

— Harry A. Blackmun

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

— Christine Lavin

I'm much more interested in lesser-known eccentrics and characters and performers. Like Matthew Buchinger, who was born in Germany in 1674, had no arms…

— Ricky Jay

“Ordinary people, caught in the trap of their routine lives, are not villains any more than eccentrics or rebels are villains. Essentially, both kinds…

— Sydney J. Harris

“On the one hand, there are people known as straight, regular, square (and there are also cubes and tesseracts), classified, degreed, graduated, and moneyed,…

— Alan Wilson Watts

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

— Rose Macaulay

“Fortunately the City is vigilant. It too has its secret weapons. Since the summer it has released safety valves that form part of a…

— Jacques Yonnet