I was a tomboy, always fairly eccentric, and convinced I'd grow up to be an actress. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
“Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I've always been an eccentric, a rocker at heart. I can't play the guitar, but I can play the griddle. — Guy Fieri Copy Share Image
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I was lucky because my upbringing was so eccentric. It has helped me cope with unreal situations. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mom is a little bit eccentric. I mean, she does - she has a lot of unique ideas. For example, she… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“[...] My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that… — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, Im kind of astonished because I think,… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
Bizarrely, I actually feel safer the older I get, like people will expect less from me, and I can become more and… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other. — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Become the artist who designs your own life. While others look at life’s straight lines—their height and depth and width—bend the lines… — Franklyn James Copy Share Image
Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
“Mary kept down the housekeeping bills to the very best of her ability, but meat was always dear, and she suspected the… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're… — Thomas Watson, Jr Copy Share Image
Could there be a more hilarious sad sack than Duncan Leland, whose trials and tribulations, so wittily conveyed, had me laughing (and… — Mameve Medwed Copy Share Image
“We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different,… — James Hollis 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
“I have no objection whatever to your representing me as a little eccentric, since you and your learned friends would have it… — Patrick Brontë 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
“Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an… — Geoffrey Miller 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
“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
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
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