Eccentric Quotes · Page 5

I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.

— David A. Stewart

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

— Brandon Sanderson

I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.

— Tom Waits

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

— Regina Brett

“It is not my way,” he said, “to stop startling guests.”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

— Anonymous

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

— Dave Eggers

I was lucky because my upbringing was so eccentric. It has helped me cope with unreal situations.

— Sophie Dahl

“She felt like she’d done so much work to appear as eccentric as possible, and still, when it came down to it,…

— Maggie Stiefvater

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I…

— George Burns

“Stories of magic alone can express my sense that life is not only a pleasure but a kind of eccentric privilege.”

— G.K. Chesterton

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

— Miranda Richardson

I figured if I was eccentric looking in Indiana, people would think, 'What is he selling? Let's look in his case.'

— Ty Warner

A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my…

— Robert Downey, Jr

I had a lot of funky things as a kid. I had dinosaurs and comic book stuff. I was eccentric; imagination drove…

— Brian Tee

The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep,…

— Dorian Yates

I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city…

— John Waters

Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do…

— Rex Harrison

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

I'll be seen as eccentric, like Vic Reeves or Spike Milligan, which would be amazing. But I suppose I'm in this weird…

— Noel Fielding

I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my…

— Osamu Dazai

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as…

— Bob Dylan

I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through…

— Michael Koryta

The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect…

— Chuck Klosterman

The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the…

— James Hillman

Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle…

— Duncan Long

I've always been an eccentric, a rocker at heart. I can't play the guitar, but I can play the griddle.

— Guy Fieri

I have described myself as being 'gently eccentric.'

— Daniel Radcliffe

I'm not very eccentric. I wear more conservative clothes, though I do like mini-skirts.

— Sandrine Bonnaire

I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.

— Jim Gaffigan

The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

I believe that those who knew me [in my youth] took me for an eccentric.

— Adolf Hitler

It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.

— Nicolas Cage

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

— Elizabeth McGovern

“Are you nuts?” I kept my eyes on the dog when I said, “I prefer the term eccentric.”

— Barbra Annino

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

— Demi Moore

“Her name is Emmilina. She is quite eccentric and was Thomas’s best friend.”

— Jessica Fortunato

People don't expect me to have a weird sense of humor, but I do. I'm very eccentric.

— Cheyenne Jackson

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

— Jules Verne