Idiosyncratic Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around. — Bjork
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
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
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
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
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
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
Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest. — Bret Lott
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
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
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
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
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
I do idiosyncratic dramedies. — Mike White
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
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
Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mindâ€™s concentrated and… — Forrest Gander
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
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
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

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