Eccentric Quote by Jane Smiley Download Open image “People are quite frequently eccentric.” — Jane Smiley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eccentric Frequently People Quite
Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics… — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric. — Temple Grandin 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 not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
I totally understand I'm an eccentric person; I'm not going to claim to be a normal person. — Augustus Sol Invictus 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
Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
You know what getting married is? It's agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“We watched the swimmers and sunbathers and I thought about this. Had I faced all the facts? It seemed like I had, but actually,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“They throw themselves on the waters of the world, and they know they will be borne up.” — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
everything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“Shame is a distinct feeling. I couldn’t look at my hands around the coffee cup or hear my own laments without feeling appalled, wanting… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“She could not have created this moment, these lovely faces, these candles flickering, the flash of the silverware, the fragrances of the food hanging… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I would wake… — Jane Smiley 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
