“That so few dare be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“They preserved autonomy of conscience even at the cost of becoming eccentric.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
My parents weren't into fashion. I didn't have an eccentric granny who mixed lace mantillas with tweed. — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
I totally understand I'm an eccentric person; I'm not going to claim to be a normal person. — Augustus Sol Invictus Copy Share Image
I consider myself a bit of an eccentric, and I relate very deeply to other people that have niche obsessions. — John Wilson Copy Share Image
In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application. — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings… — Saadi Copy Share Image
I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean,… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
“I guess if you’re smart enough, you can do and say what you like and people just call you eccentric. It’s like… — David Walton Copy Share Image
Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
In training, don't be afraid to be an oddball, eccentric, or extremist. Only by daring to go against tradition can new ways… — Benji Durden Copy Share Image
You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I definitely write about things that are universal, that everyone can identify with. You're supposed to write about things you're passionate about… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
So I've tried to be this very eccentric character, and that works very well if you want to be a painter which… — Tony Kaye 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
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
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
And with this sort of increased visibility, there's more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
“In a famous passage, Mill explained Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, in order… — Mary Pickering Copy Share Image
SETH said: The natural person is to be found, now, not in the past or in the present, but beneath layers and… — Jane Roberts 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… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Let's become little old ladies together- we'll stay up late looking at old pictures, telling "remember when" stories, and laughing till our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an… — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The problem is normal was'nt in my DNA. I was destined to be forever freakish.” — Julie Hockley 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
You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful. — Tadashi Yanai Copy Share Image
When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric. — Al McGuire 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
