Eccentricity Quote by John Cheever

“True, I'd never met him. And true, he was a fictional character. But he also was what people needed him to be: a dashing…

— Jodi Picoult

“I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive…

— Steve Martin

“Even the things that showed him his path seemed to point at what a fool he was. Another of life's ironies? Or just fate's…

— Ruth Frances Long

“A hero can be fool, he's still a hero.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it…

— Douglas Adams

“He thought how silly it was that he believed in something so arbitrary. He foolishly believed he had a purpose, that he was destined…

— Kris Noel

“He was a master in the art of spreading boredom and playing the clumsy fool-though never so egregiously that people might enjoy making fun…

— Patrick Süskind

“He was a secretive man, who kept his own counsel. He was an ambitious man of humble origins, with colossal designs on the future.…

— Daniel Mark Epstein

“If you really want to judge of the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Every fool may become a hero…

— Swami Vivekananda

“His stride was long, tall, and proud. He wore a mask of proprietary disinterest, as though everything before his eyes belonged to him and…

— S.G. Night

“Sometimes he felt like the only one on earth. He was different. He always was. His attempts at living in the regular world seemed…

— Ann Brashares

“Had it all been a facade, had he covered his true self with a cloak of geniality and good humour to impress me?”

— B.A. Paris