“Are you committed to having a really strange life?" She laughed. "Probably. What do you mean?” — Elizabeth Mckenzie Copy Share Image
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain… — Christine Lavin 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
“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
“ 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
“Ordinary people, caught in the trap of their routine lives, are not villains any more than eccentrics or rebels are villains. Essentially,… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I'm much more interested in lesser-known eccentrics and characters and performers. Like Matthew Buchinger, who was born in Germany in 1674, had… — Ricky Jay 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
“ 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
“On the one hand, there are people known as straight, regular, square (and there are also cubes and tesseracts), classified, degreed, graduated,… — Alan Wilson Watts 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
Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics. — Bat for Lashes 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
“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
When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride,… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're… — Thomas Watson, Jr Copy Share Image
Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics… — Albert Hadley 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
