My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I always wanted an eccentric daughter . I just never realized how well my evil plans were working. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric. — Al McGuire Copy Share Image
You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful. — Tadashi Yanai Copy Share Image
I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world. — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I grew up with my dad. He was very eccentric. I had zero supervision in New York. It's kind of like I… — Julia Fox Copy Share Image
You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric. — Bobby Heenan Copy Share Image
I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Leading the way forward at great cost to herself, her magnificent energy was so intense that it tumbles down still through many… — Theresa Sjoquist Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and… — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become… — James Hollis 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
We are not here to fit in...we are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece,… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“His extraordinary indifference to the life snapping at the bait is matched by the risk he runs of doing utterly eccentric things.… — Robert Musil 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
Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank… — Louis Kronenberger 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
In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby,… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
