Eccentric Quote by James Joyce Download Open image “The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.” — James Joyce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eccentric Individual Individuality States
Perhaps an eccentric is just off centre - ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal. — Margaret Rutherford Copy Share Image
The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve. — Marjorie Benton Cooke Copy Share Image
Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad. — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
I hope I'm an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a super individual. — Margaret Rutherford Copy Share Image
We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay. — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
Eccentric is a difficult word because it's come to mean crazy. Avant-garde would be better. Eccentric is not "centric" in terms of having a… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“two cronies drank to the memory of their past. An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them. His mind seemed older… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“You can drink your soup ice-cold, but it's no longer soup; you can do eccentric things in life, but if you haven't been able… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of… — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect. — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image
I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never… — Adrian Lyne Copy Share Image
May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
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… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
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… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most people think,… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course. — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
