Eccentric Quotes

200 Eccentric quotes by 181 unique authors

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple. — Regina Brett
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too… — A.C. Grayling
She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric. — Michael Cunningham
He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more good… — Michael Cunningham
Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate… — Garrison Keillor
Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness,… — Tom Robbins
Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker — Troy Denning
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil. — Vincent Van Gogh
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of… — Edith Sitwell
I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme… — John Waters
Is despair wrong? Isnâ€™t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? â€¦ After a number of events, what is there left but… — Julian Barnes
Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked… — Jack Kerouac
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. — Dave Eggers
If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor. — Suzanne Collins
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny… — John Stuart Mill
You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena) That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Look, I promise Iâ€™m not psychotic. Eccentric and idiosyncratic, but not psychotic. (Sebastian) Iâ€™ll bet the prisons are full of men who have told women… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went… — Mikhail Bulgakov
Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old… — Susanna Clarke
I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha! — Brandon Sanderson

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