Eccentric Quotes

#1. It's funny, when I lived in Ohio, I would read about extraordinary, eccentric characters in books and plays, but I couldn't imagine them in real life. Then I came to New York.

Fiona Davis

#2. Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

Louise Jameson

#3. The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

Marjorie Benton Cooke

#4. I'm a nosy old woman, it's a perk of getting old. You can be annoying and people just call you eccentric.

Lauren Dane

#5. People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.

Temple Grandin

#6. Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles; which has sometimes won me the reputation of an eccentric.

Robert Graves

#7. The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension.

Wassily Kandinsky

#8. We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're eccentric because they are the product of an individual mind. They are not, in any way, mediated.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against labeling, thus making you a hypocrite.

Alexandra Robbins

#10. After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses indurate. Both go mouldy.

Julian Barnes

#11. I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

John Cleese

#12. I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues - or by almost anybody. And that is, we're running out of everything.

Jeremy Grantham

#13. Eccentric is a nice word to replace 'weird' and 'crazy', which you can use when you really like someone.

Haidji

#14. A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#15. I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.

J. D. Souther

#16. When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.

Al McGuire

#17. He'sh mad?"
"Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money."
"Ah, then he can't be mad. I've been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he'sh just ecshentric.

Terry Pratchett

#18. Meg and I dreamed ... a foolish dream that we might flee to Italy, buy a small villa in the country. I would be an eccentric recluse, and she wouldnpreform on the stage. We might yet have made a life...

Sadie Montgomery

#19. But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn

Kenji Miyazawa

#20. It is an eccentric and uniquely human approach to resources: like plowing under your farmland to make way for more lawns, or compromising your air quality in exchange for an enormous car.

John Vaillant

#21. This was distressing. She felt like she'd done so much work to appear as eccentric as possible, and still, when it came down to it, she was sensible.

Maggie Stiefvater

#22. The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

Oliver Goldsmith

#23. You are eccentric when you have enough money to not be considered crazy,

Mercedes Lackey

#24. It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy.

Yvon Chouinard

#25. I like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don't want to talk to a legitimate crazy person, because that's not nice.

Billy Eichner

#26. God's definition of going well is unique, distinct, almost eccentric. His definition of wellness is not about health, finances, or job security. It's not about unfailing protection from the vagaries and dangers of a broken world. It's not about life being fair. It's about acceptance.

Mark Buchanan

#27. And it seemed to me that existence was itself so very eccentric a legacy that I could not complain of not understanding the limitations of the vision when I did not understand the vision they limited.

G.K. Chesterton

#28. I've found that I seek out oddballs; I like strange and eccentric people a lot.

Arthur Bradford

#29. Your own exploration therefore has to be personalized; you're doing it for yourself, increasing your own store of particular knowledge, walking your own eccentric version of the city.

Geoff Nicholson

#30. What am I in the eyes of most people? A good-for-nothing, an eccentric and disagreeable man, somebody who has no position in society and never will have. Very well, even if that were true, I should want to show by my work what there is in the heart of such an eccentric man, of such a nobody.

Vincent Van Gogh

#31. It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

Paloma Faith

#32. Let the mind contemplate, let the pen scribble, the oeuvre would be eccentric, peculiar to a reader's eye.

Shilpa Sandesh

#33. ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.

Newt Gingrich

#34. I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.

Adrian McKinty

#35. My approach is different. My mistakes are conscious mistakes. And I learn more than those I despise way too often than those I admire.

Harshit Walia

#36. Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies - Scout

Harper Lee

#37. Lapin breaks away from Broadway and picks a path toward Telegraph Hill. Her velocity is steady, even as the landscape rises underneath her; she's the little eccentric that could.

Robin Sloan

#38. My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.

Annette Bening

#39. I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

Paloma Faith

#40. My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

Julie Walters

#41. To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.

Emily Dickinson

#42. No single individual, however eccentric or brilliant, could affect the enormous inertia of a society that had remained virtually unchanged for over a billion years.

Arthur C. Clarke

#43. When I'm at an event, I like to be an eccentric dresser. I will just keep wearing what I like.

Eva Green

#44. Some would say eccentric. I would say stoned out of his fuckin mind, nothing personal.

Thomas Pynchon

#45. She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

Michael Cunningham

#46. 'Backwash' is an old-school, slapstick-y romp between three eccentric loser friends who inadvertently rob a bank, armed solely with a salami and a sweat sock, and then find themselves on the run pursued by singing cops. It's kind of a classic piece, a sophisticated piece, if you will.

Joshua Malina

#47. Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers, and there was no income tax. They are some of the most fascinating people, and I am endlessly fascinated.

Riki Lindhome

#48. When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

Al McGuire

#49. She was an original ... She was an eccentric. She'd come alive like a fire, telling funny stories and entertaining everyone, then she'd suddenly run out of fuel, make her excuses and leave. You always knew when she'd had enough. Those that didn't would find themselves talk to the walls.

Santa Montefiore

#50. He has also worked as a shop assistant, bicycle-repair mechanic, journalist, actor, eccentric dancer, and mail-order bride. He has never worked for MI5. Don't believe anyone who tel s you otherwise. He is, however, secretly Superman.

Simon R. Green

#51. It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.

Tobsha Learner

#52. Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

A.C. Grayling

#53. If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

Bobby Heenan

#54. If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.

Jules Verne

#55. The world is filled with heroes and wannabes, so let me just play the villain.

Ahmed Mostafa

#56. My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior
BEFORE the Reformation.

John Waters

#57. (regarding Charles Lee) This eccentric and notably slovenly man was always trailed by his beloved dogs. "When I can be convinced that men are as worthy objects as dogs", he once explained, "I shall transfer my benevolence to them.

Ron Chernow

#58. 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

#59. I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.

Michael J. Fox

#60. wondering if this was how I was going to end up: eccentric and alone.

Pauline Wiles

#61. It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're eccentric because of it.

Robin McLeavy

#62. Many kids who would have been called eccentric, different, were suddenly labeled autistic." I

Jon Ronson

#63. It occurred to me almost constantly in the South that had I lived there I would have been an eccentric and full of anger, and I wondered what form the anger would have taken. Would I have taken up causes, or would I have simply knifed somebody?

Joan Didion

#64. 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 would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.

Adrian Lyne

#65. Learning to write ... is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.

Bret Lott

#66. Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.

Bruce Robinson

#67. When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.

Madonna Ciccone

#68. I've worn a lot of humdingers in my time, but as a model it's my duty - my responsibility - to bring life to any garment. That can be challenging when it comes to high fashion, where the creations can be very eccentric, but I've gained a reputation for being the go-to girl who can pull it off.

Erin O'Connor

#69. I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.

Andrew Hill

#70. I'd rather go with something eccentric
but beautifully eccentric.

April Greiman

#71. Repeatedly Yates went berserk - raging over grievances old and new, hurling furniture at phantoms out of his past. The nurses who lived upstairs complained about the racket to the landlady, an eccentric woman who adored Yates and did nothing.

Blake Bailey

#72. Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

Tim Burton

#73. When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

John Phillips Marquand

#74. You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena)
That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#75. I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

Lady Gaga

#76. You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.

Douglas Coupland

#77. My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

George Bernard Shaw

#78. I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.

Lori R. Lopez

#79. I've always been quite an eccentric character. I love going out and partying; I'm a very sociable creature.

Jess Glynne

#80. New York used to be so much more than just a place to shop. It was life on the street for the eccentrics; it was an eccentric city. It had many different tastes. Now it's just one - a really rich one - with big tall glass buildings.

Chris Noth

#81. No-one has the right to terminate a person's life with a gun, a knife, or a makutu (spell).

Theresa Sjoquist

#82. Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Mark Twain

#83. Now I'm old ... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon ... and it's great!

Sylvester McCoy

#84. It seems that, depending upon which side of the thesaurus-writer's gaze we sit, one's uniqueness can be deemed to be either eccentric or distinctive. Both, in my opinion, are good.

Fennel Hudson

#85. I am in love with whatever is eccentric, devious, strange, singular, unique, out of this world-and with life as an incalculable, a chaotic thing, meaningful above and beyond the necessary and elemental data of my subject.

Marguerite Young

#86. Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

Maynard James Keenan

#87. People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.

Fennel Hudson

#88. I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world!

Richard Briers

#89. I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane or masochistic and worse than a loser.

Susan Straight

#90. I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser.

Michael Sheen

#91. You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

Rupert Everett

#92. Are you nuts?" I kept my eyes on the dog when I said, "I prefer the term eccentric.

Barbra Annino

#93. By conceiving of love as biologically inevitable, key to the continuation of the species, Schopenhauer's theory of the will invites us to adopt a more forgiving stance towards the eccentric behaviour to which love so often makes us subject.

Alain De Botton

#94. I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think, 'This is completely normal. This is just how I am, it's how I've always been.'

Daphne Guinness

#95. Inspiration for my short stories grows from a psychic kernel, a vision of some sort or an eccentric, colorful dream.

Lawren Leo

#96. I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

Saul Bellow

#97. Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.

Brian May

#98. I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very few conventions. I'm quite willing to be that eccentric who has a very odd job, quite happy to be the only science fiction writer in town.

Robert Reed

#99. In training, don't be afraid to be an oddball, eccentric, or extremist. Only by daring to go against tradition can new ways of training be learned. The trick is recognizing quickly when a new approach is counterproductive.

Benji Durden

#100. My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

Elizabeth McGovern