“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
“Are you committed to having a really strange life?" She laughed. "Probably. What do you mean?” — Elizabeth Mckenzie Copy Share Image
“Fortunately the City is vigilant. It too has its secret weapons. Since the summer it has released safety valves that form part… — Jacques Yonnet Copy Share Image
“Morse found it nerve-wracking to cross the St. Jude grounds just as school was being dismissed, because he felt that if he… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“ My fantasy was that I was the long-lost switched-at-birth child of wealthy eccentrics. One day, they would find me and take… — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
“ Strays is what a writer I recently read calls those who, for one reason or another, and despite whatever they might… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
“Try this." O'Grady smiled. "It's the only thing we drink. It'll warm your insides." "What is it?" Asked the ever cautious Waldo.… — Donald Jeffries Copy Share Image
“A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since… — Isaac Asimov 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
“So it was with the various eccentrics she discovered in the next years. Some she went home with, some she didn't; some… — Patricia Bosworth Copy Share Image
“Well, they're queer; but they're all very old, and so they're bound to be. But they're not mental,' explained Mother; adding candidly,… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“Yes," said Margaret, smiling. "You don't have three dead cats on your mantlepiece." Dane stopped short. "DEAD CATS?" he repeated incredulously, taken… — Sarah Brazytis Copy Share Image
“Eccentrics with unseeing eyes glided through, savouring amid so much society their own particular loneliness and private sins and sorrows.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“In war and other difficult enterprises in life, one can expect that people who possess useful skills will also display their share… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the fresh load of guests would turn up before we had got rid of the previous group, and the chaos was… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
