[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so… — Marilynne Robinson 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
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
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 should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups - (a) Love of the… — H. P. Lovecraft 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
Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December… — Robert Burns 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
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
Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through… — John Stuart Mill 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
No, I'm a very normal and orthodox person that goes out of their way to present eccentricity. It's not that I do… — Tony Kaye Copy Share Image
Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance… — James Hillman 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
At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the… — Chris Noth Copy Share Image
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 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
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
My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something… — Joseph Brodsky 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
“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
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
Celebrate yourself. Follow your passions and eccentricities, because they are yours alone. You are unique! If everyone did that, I'm pretty sure… — Kandyse McClure Copy Share Image
“Don't you ever realise," said Helen, "that the way we live is unlike the way other people live?" "On the whole I… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality. — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
“One benefit of getting older is that you no longer care how eccentric you look. I have embraced this in recent years,… — Una McCormack 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
There is such a thing as genius, and these are people who do not have a formal disability, DSM-IV-type. They may have… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
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