“I don’t trust masters who can’t be down-to-earth. For me they’re like those eccentric poets who can’t write like everybody else. I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart. — Stella Benson 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
“Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with.” — Alison Larkin Copy Share Image
“Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Yes, I advise wearing the silver gown that he sent,” he said plainly. “When one sends a gift, it is usually polite… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney 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
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
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. — Martin Short Copy Share Image
Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our… — Chris Rose Copy Share Image
When I look at my clothes, I think of them as an expression of the joy and fun of fashion - with… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
“Clancy comments that the subtleties of national character can impact the world stage by making espionage more difficult. Americans were quirky by… — Tom Clancy 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
I’m one of those very lucky people who absolutely love what they do for a living. There is no career better suited… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
“If all the eccentricities and all the strangenesses in this world suddenly disappear, people will fall asleep from the boredom! Every kind… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life — David Ogilvy 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
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
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
“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
