I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to listen to her dictating to her… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
I am admittedly eccentric and very silly and I laugh all day and it makes me laugh that people think that I'm… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues - or by almost anybody. And that is, we're… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
“Stroller was eccentric, no doubt, but I’m one of those people for whom eccentric were made. I’m an appreciator of the offbeat” — Dominique Browning Copy Share Image
This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him,… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
It's fun to see the light in someone's eyes. It's fun to give your own eccentric experience and have it land. That's… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way… — Adrian Lyne Copy Share Image
I've worn a lot of humdingers in my time, but as a model it's my duty - my responsibility - to bring… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth.… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Like I said before, I don't know how helpful Inez will be, " she explained. "She's very eccentric and controlled by her… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting… — Philip French Copy Share Image
Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still… — Brian May Copy Share Image
But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight /… — Kenji Miyazawa Copy Share Image
I love exaggerated, and I love eccentric, but you must be comfortable. Otherwise it is nonsense. There is nothing charming about a… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people.… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people–people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I have very non-eccentric hobbies. I like to read, to have dinner with friends, and junk out on TV like everybody else. — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing… — Daniel Breaker Copy Share Image
FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen,… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters. — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
“Yet lucky people don’t care about the past. Lucky people don’t seek reasons and causes. They live in the present moment and… — Mr. W Copy Share Image
I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
“Stubborness and staunch, they are both same things from different point of view, such crazy and eccentric.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm back visiting an old grandmother. She's crotchety and eccentric, but also elegant, and anyone who doesn't fall in… — Tony Lema Copy Share Image
I like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don't want to talk to a legitimate… — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
“What's the difference between eccentric and crazy?' She lifted her hands above her head, tapped her zills together, and danced out the… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
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