Eccentric Quotes · Page 9

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.

— Dodie Smith

For young people, it doesn't matter so much, but when you're older, less is definitely more - too much make-up can give…

— Lulu

I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric…

— Matthew McConaughey

My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.

— Douglas Coupland

I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing,…

— Carol Vorderman

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think,…

— Daphne Guinness

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in…

— Edith Sitwell

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it,…

— Uma Thurman

I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I…

— Robert Reed

I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds…

— Rainn Wilson

“Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is…

— Julian Barnes

Ray Toro is a very eccentric, crazy genius type guy. I think he's a genius. He just got this thing at the…

— Gerard Way

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice…

— Bill Watterson

I tend to gravitate toward people who are a bit more eccentric and creative and artistic in some ways. And I like…

— Mark Parker

“If we look at some of the most celebrated or prolific story originators of all time, we find among them a surprising…

— Sacha Coward

You can't get a bad picture out of Bacall. There's nothing eccentric about her. She's perfect all over and yet she looks…

— Louise Dahl-Wolfe

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured…

— Marilyn Hacker

My parents are a wonderful mixture of bohemian eccentric, but also incredibly practical and not airy-fairy.

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're…

— Robin McLeavy

There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup…

— Laurie Colwin

“You can drink your soup ice-cold, but it's no longer soup; you can do eccentric things in life, but if you haven't…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“My beauty is my eccentricity, when I am out people stare at me and speak, look at that creative guy, unique guy,…

— Amit Kalantri

They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts…

— Al McGuire

Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with…

— Louise Jameson

People do call her eccentric, moody but with me she has always been the same. I always talk about love with Rekha.

— Randhir Kapoor

“I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.”

— Lori R. Lopez

No matter how extreme I've had to be, no matter how eccentric people perceive me to be, because I'm outside the norms,…

— Bryan Johnson

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

— Jacques Derrida

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

— Saul Bellow

No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric…

— Julie Walters

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet…

— David E. Kelley

Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living…

— Riki Lindhome

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

— Henry Steele Commager

The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth.

— Alessandro Michele

“Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.”

— Amit Kalantri

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

— Franz Schubert

I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I…

— Anonymous