Idiosyncratic Quotes
31 quotes by 28 authors
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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
— Bjork
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
— Harold Bloom
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great…
— Salman Rushdie
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Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
— Tom Peters
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Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it…
— Annie Dillard
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I like to watch people. For example, people at the airport... What is interesting about them is that they dont know what they are like.…
— Karen Black
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So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that can be embedded…
— Tony Hoagland
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Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.
— Bret Lott
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One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the…
— Nicholas Negroponte
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Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression of…
— Jamake Highwater
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While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.
— Chuck Close
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Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a…
— Elif Batuman
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I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The…
— Billy Corgan
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I do idiosyncratic dramedies.
— Mike White
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Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and…
— Nicholson Baker
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Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as…
— Anthony Storr
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Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind’s concentrated and…
— Forrest Gander
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In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even…
— Josip Novakovich
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Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.
— Terry Eagleton
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Look, I promise I’m not psychotic. Eccentric and idiosyncratic, but not psychotic. (Sebastian) I’ll bet the prisons are full of men who have told women…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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