Eccentric Quotes

200 quotes by 183 authors

I have always idolized eccentric people. — Brandon Boyd
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek… — Steven Brust
I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric… — Dana Carvey
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric. — Anton Chekhov
The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty… — James Hillman
When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric. — Al McGuire
It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting… — John Flavel
The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of… — Rajneesh
Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express. — Oliver Herring
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric. — Mark Twain
If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people. You have to… — John Eliot
Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of… — Clifton Fadiman
When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you. — Madonna Ciccone
Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do — Brian May
Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a dog. I think… — Charles Krauthammer
I was a high school student like Picasso. I was a little eccentric, but I had high ideals. I wanted to get along well with… — Usamaru Furuya
It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the… — Gwyneth Paltrow
One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal… — Robert Audi
Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay. — Crispin Glover
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain… — Michael J. Gelb

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