Eccentric Quotes
200 Eccentric quotes by 181 unique authors
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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
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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
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It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.
— Paloma Faith
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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
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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
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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
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I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.
— Katherine Heigl
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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
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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
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
— Al McGuire
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That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
— John Stuart Mill
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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
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I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.
— Maureen O'Hara
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My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.
— Katy Perry
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
— Bertrand Russell
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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
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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
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Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.
— Gene Tierney
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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
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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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