Eccentric Quotes

200 Eccentric quotes by 181 unique authors

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction. — Jacques Derrida
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because… — Brian Eno
It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric. — Paloma Faith
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide. — Marilyn Hacker
I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the… — Mark Haddon
If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric. — Bobby Heenan
I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring. — Katherine Heigl
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them. — Maynard James Keenan
I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're… — Matthew McConaughey
When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric. — Al McGuire
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. — John Stuart Mill
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so… — John Stuart Mill
I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for. — Maureen O'Hara
My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world. — Katy Perry
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. — Bertrand Russell
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals. — Franz Schubert
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive… — Uma Thurman
Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set. — Gene Tierney
My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can… — Julie Walters
I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and… — Rainn Wilson

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