“. . . 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
“[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
Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
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
“The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. — Martin Short Copy Share Image
There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people. — Rachel Weisz 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
“Always wise aunts come in many guises. There are maiden aunts, dowager aunts, and that delightful creature, the eccentric aunt. I fear… — Sara Sheridan 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
Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the… — Prince Charles 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
“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
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
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance,… — Randall Jarrell 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
No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star… — Yvonne Rainer Copy Share Image
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear,… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
“Those who think they are destined for the high offices of state, should make themselves remarkable; for if a man aspire to… — John Galt Copy Share Image
It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their… — Thomas Sowell 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
“There was a time when a new deputy tried to teach Mr. Fruit about the difference between a red and a green… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles And somewhere near the middle… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
“We would never say to a man, "Be eccentric"; but if he cannot help being so, we would not have him be… — Charles H. Spurgeon 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
“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
“Balzac was pretty funny. His philosophy is plain and simple, says basically that pure materialism is a recipe for madness. The only… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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