Eccentric Quotes

200 Eccentric quotes by 181 unique authors

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar… — Thomas Hood
But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever… — Kenji Miyazawa
It's far too easy to qualify as an eccentric nowadays. — Stephanie Mills
The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate. — Wallace Stevens
I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain. — Tom Waits
What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in… — Vincent Van Gogh
There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe… — Vincent Van Gogh
It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go. — Nicolas Cage
I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase. — Zaha Hadid
An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured… — Simon Barnes
The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society. — Eric Maisel
The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist… — Eric Maisel
The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can… — Will Rogers
Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world… — Adrian Desmond
Normality is the new eccentric. — Criss Jami
I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the… — Michael J. Fox
I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up… — Stephen Fry
I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people… — Lady Gaga
Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard. — Noel Gallagher

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