Eccentric Quotes
200 quotes by 181 authors
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A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.
— Toni Bentley
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The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country,…
— Danny Wallace
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The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.
— James Joyce
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Ray Toro is a very eccentric, crazy genius type guy. I think he's a genius. He just got this thing at the VMA. The way…
— Gerard Way
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My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I may appear to be an eccentric old man... But this is a free choice.
— Jose Mujica
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In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion is this: Make…
— Twyla Tharp
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Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is…
— Steven Pinker
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That's what being eccentric means--being natural.
— Lorraine Hansberry
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You can't get a bad picture out of Bacall. There's nothing eccentric about her. She's perfect all over and yet she looks like nobody else.
— Unknown Author
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Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is....
— Ellen Terry
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Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed…
— Robert Graves
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There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
— Tycho Brahe
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You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
— Douglas Coupland
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I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.
— Andrew Hill
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You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made…
— Thomas Keneally
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There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.
— Laurie Colwin
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Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric…
— Nick Lowe
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Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all…
— David Graeber
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I'd rather go with something eccentric--but beautifully eccentric.
— April Greiman
Who Wrote These Eccentric Quotes
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