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 Copy Share Image
“[T]he two things, life style and work, have become one. Now if that’s eccentricity, then I’m eccentric.” — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
“He was not a practical joker nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“. . . solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public . . . [p. 7]” — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“To the extent that self-expression does broadcast and reinforce a person's character, it clarifies a link between art, eccentricity, and mental illness.… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
“I suppose I'm what they call a decadent, one whose spirit is outwardly defined by those sad glimmers of artificial eccentricity that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To me, you couldn't write a character like J. Edgar Hoover and have it be believable. I mean, he was a crock… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
“Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or performed any… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The good thing about New Orleans is that, overall, it's an accepting place. It's accepting of eccentricity, it's accepting of excess, it's… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
“It was as if she had been made afresh out of new elements, and must perforce be permitted to live her own… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should… — John Grier Hibben Copy Share Image
Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential… — Paul Morley Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Eccentricity is one of those English traits that look like frailty but mask a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.” — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“One is expected to show a bit of eccentricity to be interesting. Otherwise one is simply a sad old crone, and no… — Camilla Läckberg Copy Share Image
I think because of the eccentricity of my work and how I dress, people expect me to be bouncing off the walls.… — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife! — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
“And many a time, towards the end of life, does the genius repent of his choice. "It would be better not to… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
BBC Radio is not so much an art or industry as it is a way of life . . . a mirror… — Morley Safer Copy Share Image
Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He… — Kris Saknussemm Copy Share Image
To some extent, we all have quirks or idiosyncrasies, and some geniuses, because of how bright they are and how focused they… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
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